Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.
Noel Coward
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
States
Appearing
Theatre
State
Acting
More quotes by Noel Coward
How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.
Noel Coward
Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
Noel Coward
Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.
Noel Coward
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
Noel Coward
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
Noel Coward
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.
Noel Coward
I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.
Noel Coward
As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Noel Coward
My life really has been one long extravaganza.
Noel Coward
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
Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son.
Noel Coward
A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
Noel Coward
You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.
Noel Coward
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
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
Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
Noel Coward
Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
Noel Coward
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
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
Noel Coward
At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.
Noel Coward
