Noel Coward Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humor, Long

• Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

  Noel Coward

  Witty, Writing, Caviar

• If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

  Noel Coward

  Motivational, Friday, Thinking

• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

• The higher the building the lower the morals.

  Noel Coward

  Literature, Morality, Architecture

• I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

  Noel Coward

  Class, Literature, Firsts

• My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

  Noel Coward

  Mind, Literature, Body

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.28, A&C Black

• Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

  Noel Coward

  Journey, Acting, Literature

  Quoted in Dick Richards, The Wit of Noel Coward (1968). According to Richards, Coward said this during the run of his play Nude with Violin (1956 - 1957). See Fontanne 1

• Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

  Noel Coward

  Exercise, Squash, Literature

• Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

  Noel Coward

  Mind, Literature, Made

  'The Cafè de la Paix'

• We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

  Noel Coward

  Death, Suicide, Guarantees That

  Noel Coward (1965). “Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives”

• Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

  Noel Coward

  Jesus, Judging, Literature

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.363, A&C Black

• That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

  Noel Coward

  War, Hands, Feelings

  Noel Coward (1952). “Play Parade”

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