Noël Coward Quotes

Work is more fun than fun.
Noël Coward
Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch.
Noël Coward
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.
Noël Coward
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noël Coward
As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Noël Coward
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.
Noël Coward
Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.
Noël Coward
The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallowing in it. It’s still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We’ve invented a few things that make noises, but we haven’t invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions.
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I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.
Noël Coward
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noël Coward
An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the future would be kinderAnd never knew the loneliness of night.
Noël Coward
Strange how potent cheap music is.
Noël Coward
All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.
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Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.
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What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.
Noël Coward
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
Noël 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.
Noël Coward