Noel Coward Quotes - Page 2

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• But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

  Noel Coward

  Travel, Home, People

  Noel Coward (1973). “A Last Encore”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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• Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

  Noel Coward

  Eye, Power, People

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• I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

  Noel Coward

  Moving, Home, Theatre

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.73, A&C Black

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• We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

  Noel Coward

  Death, Suicide, Guarantees That

  Noel Coward (1965). “Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives”

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• Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

  Noel Coward

  Television, Appearing

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.585, Vintage

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• Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humorous, Years

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• She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

  Noel Coward

  Theatre, Shows

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• To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Writing, Views

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• He's completely unspoiled by failure.

  Noel Coward

  Sarcastic

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• Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

  Noel Coward

  Caviar, Should, Marmalade

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

  Noel Coward

  Florence, Arabia, Peter

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• How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, Doors, Lunch

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.326, Vintage

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• I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Marriage, Sometimes

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• Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

  Noel Coward

  Music, Work, Extraordinary

  'Private Lives' (1930) act 1

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• Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

  Noel Coward

  Sex, Women, Should

  Private Lives act 3 (1930)

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• Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.

  Noel Coward

  Book, Sexiest, Vulgar

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• As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

  Noel Coward

  Different, Hats

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• What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

  Noel Coward

  Rain, Writing, Bored

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• I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

  Noel Coward

  Different, Know How, Knows

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• Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.

  Noel Coward

  Worship

  Noel Coward (1952). “Play Parade”

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• I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

  Noel Coward

  World, Helping, Illusion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

  Noel Coward

  Educated, Known

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• I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

  Noel Coward

  Long, Criticism, Unqualified

  Noel Coward (197?). “A Noël Coward gala: his words and music, volume two”

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• Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.

  Noel Coward

  Beach, Stars, Lying

  The Times Interview, May 26, 2009.

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