Noel Coward Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

  Dog, Sleep, Mad

  'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' (1931 song)

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• Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

  Noel Coward

  Cheer, Fall, History

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• 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

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• It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, Years, Play

  "The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times".

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• My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Selfish, Drinking

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• I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

  Noel Coward

  Moving, Home, Long

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• I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

  Noel Coward

  Sarcastic, Lips, Stampede

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• There's always something fishy about the French.

  Noel Coward

  Fishy

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

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• Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

  Noel Coward

  Sick, Looks, Mona Lisa

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• For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

  Noel Coward

  Fuel, Youth, Sober

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• Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

  Noel Coward

  Friday, Motivation, Work

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• There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About a silver lining, For we know from experience they won't roll by...

  Noel Coward

  Dark, Clouds, Sky

  "Song: There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner". 1952.

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• 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

  Fun, Home, Son

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, Methuen Drama

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• Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.

  Noel Coward

  War, Pride, Loss

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.346, A&C Black

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• Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

  Noel Coward

  Exercise, Secret, Aspirin

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• Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.

  Noel Coward

  Food, Pigs, Virginia

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• The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.

  Noel Coward

  Silly, Heaven, Looks

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• You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

  Noel Coward

  Cat, Ems, Knows

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• It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
  That though the English are effete
  They're quite impervious to heat.

  Noel Coward

  Eye, England, Heat

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.178, A&C Black

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• Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

  Noel Coward

  Doe, Matter, Mary

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• The air is like a draught of wine.
  The undertaker cleans his sign,
  The Hull express goes off the line,
  When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.

  Noel Coward

  Wine, Air, Hull

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• 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

  Down And, Fool, Accepting

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• I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, Moral, Boring

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• A bloody good thing, but too late.

  Noel Coward

  Government, Too Late, Good Things

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• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

  Noel Coward

  Dog, Mad, Sun

  "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (song) (1931).

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