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Noel Coward
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Noel Coward
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 16
Died: 1973
Died: March 26
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More quotes by Noel Coward
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.
Noel Coward
How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?
Noel Coward
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
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
I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
Noel Coward
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.
Noel Coward
Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
Noel Coward
You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.
Noel Coward
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
Noel Coward
She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.
Noel Coward
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward
The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.
Noel Coward
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noel Coward
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
Noel Coward
Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society
Noel Coward
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.
Noel Coward
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward
I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.
Noel Coward
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
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
