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Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.
Noel Coward
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Noel Coward
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 16
Died: 1973
Died: March 26
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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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Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
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There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.
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Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
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I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.
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There's always something fishy about the French.
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You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.
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Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
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You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.
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Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
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Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.
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Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
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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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Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.
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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.
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The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.
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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.
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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.
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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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She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.
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