Noel Coward Quotes - Page 3

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• How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

  Noel Coward

  Food, Cooking, Dry

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• I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

  Noel Coward

  Memories, Elephants, Facts

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• Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

  Noel Coward

  Theatre, Acting, States

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• Marriage is the aftermath of love.

  Noel Coward

  Marriage, Aftermath

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• My life really has been one long extravaganza.

  Noel Coward

  Long, Has Beens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.

  Noel Coward

  Political, House, Theatre

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• The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Beautiful, Home

  'The Stately Homes of England' (1938 song).

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• If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

  Noel Coward

  Motivational, Friday, Thinking

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• Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

  Noel Coward

  Vegas, Las Vegas, Cafes

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• I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

  Noel Coward

  Wisdom, Goal, Intelligence

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Knights, Play

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• I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Clever, Drama

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• There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

  Noel Coward

  Friendship, Want, Remember

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.

  Noel Coward

  Caring, Advice, Looks

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• In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.

  Noel Coward

  Believe, Play, Laughing

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.127, A&C Black

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• Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

  Noel Coward

  Music, Stars, Quality

  "MPD Opens Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward 4/16". www.broadwayworld.com. April 16, 2009.

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• It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.

  Noel Coward

  Eye, Acceptance, My Own

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• Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

  Noel Coward

  Country, Tea, Sweet Tea

  Noel Coward (1927). “Home Chat”

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• Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

  Noel Coward

  Exercise, Squash, Literature

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• At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.

  Noel Coward

  Dog, Mad, Twelve

  'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' (1931 song)

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• That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

  Noel Coward

  War, Hands, Feelings

  Noel Coward (1952). “Play Parade”

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• Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

  Noel Coward

  Indolence, Courses

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• Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

  Noel Coward

  Passion, Sleep, Camels

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• Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

  Noel Coward

  Sick, Looks, Mona Lisa

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