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How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.
Noel Coward
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Noel Coward
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 16
Died: 1973
Died: March 26
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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.
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He's completely unspoiled by failure.
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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.
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Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
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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.
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People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
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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.
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He must have been an incredibly good shot.
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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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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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There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About a silver lining, For we know from experience they won't roll by...
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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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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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Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
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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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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
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There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.
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I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
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Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.
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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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