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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward
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Noel Coward
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 16
Died: 1973
Died: March 26
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Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.
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I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.
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You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.
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Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
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He must have been an incredibly good shot.
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For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.
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It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.
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How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.
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It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.
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If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
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If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
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Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.
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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.
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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.
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How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?
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There's always something fishy about the French.
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Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
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Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.
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