Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Faster
Accept
Fool
Accepting
Pacing
Making
Delayed
Make
Arrive
Good
Plane
Planes
More quotes by Noel Coward
For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.
Noel Coward
Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
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
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
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
Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
Noel Coward
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.
Noel Coward
She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.
Noel Coward
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
Noel Coward
Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
Noel Coward
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
Noel Coward
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
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
Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.
Noel Coward
The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.
Noel Coward
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
Noel Coward
Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.
Noel Coward
Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)
Noel Coward
You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.
Noel Coward
Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.
Noel Coward