Noel Coward Quotes - Page 2

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• But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

  Noel Coward

  Travel, Home, People

  Noel Coward (1973). “A Last Encore”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Work is much more fun than fun.

  Noel Coward

  Inspirational, Fun, Work

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• Christmas is at our throats again.

  Noel Coward

  Stupidity, Throat

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• Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

  Noel Coward

  Instinct, Trust Your Instincts, Impulse

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• Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

  Noel Coward

  Music, Work, Extraordinary

  'Private Lives' (1930) act 1

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• He's completely unspoiled by failure.

  Noel Coward

  Sarcastic

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• Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.

  Noel Coward

  Book, Sexiest, Vulgar

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• She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

  Noel Coward

  Theatre, Shows

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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

  Nature, Travel, Flight

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• As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

  Noel Coward

  Different, Hats

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• Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

  Noel Coward

  Eye, Power, People

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• Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

  Noel Coward

  Caviar, Should, Marmalade

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

  Noel Coward

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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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.

  Noel Coward

  Moving, Home, Theatre

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.73, A&C Black

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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.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, Doors, Lunch

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.326, Vintage

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• If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

  Noel Coward

  Florence, Arabia, Peter

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• Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

  Noel Coward

  Sex, Women, Should

  Private Lives act 3 (1930)

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• I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

  Noel Coward

  Long, Criticism, Unqualified

  Noel Coward (197?). “A Noël Coward gala: his words and music, volume two”

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• What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

  Noel Coward

  Rain, Writing, Bored

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• 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.

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  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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• I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

  Noel Coward

  World, Helping, Illusion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Political, House, Theatre

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• I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

  Noel Coward

  Educated, Known

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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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  Beach, Stars, Lying

  The Times Interview, May 26, 2009.

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• Bed is the perfect climate.

  Noel Coward

  Perfect, Bed, Climate

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