Quote

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Noel Coward

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Noel Coward
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 16
Died: 1973
Died: March 26
Actor
Author
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Film Score Composer
Lyricist
Musician
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer
London
England
Sir Coward
Noel Coward
Noel Pierce Coward
Sir Noel Coward
Noël Peirce Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward
Potent
Cheap
Extraordinary
Music
Work

More quotes by Noel Coward

Image
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.
Noel Coward
Image
Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society
Noel Coward
Image
It's never too early for a cocktail.
Noel Coward
Image
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.
Noel Coward
Image
Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)
Noel Coward
Image
Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
Noel Coward
Image
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noel Coward
Image
You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.
Noel Coward
Image
Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.
Noel Coward
Image
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
Image
She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.
Noel Coward
Image
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
Noel Coward
Image
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
Image
I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.
Noel Coward
Image
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.
Noel Coward
Image
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward
Image
You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.
Noel Coward
Image
The air is like a draught of wine. The undertaker cleans his sign, The Hull express goes off the line, When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.
Noel Coward
Image
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
Noel Coward
Image
As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Noel Coward