Noel Coward Quotes

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward

Long, Taken, Annoy

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noel Coward

Honesty, Few, Deceit

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noel Coward

Honesty, Few, Deceit

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

Love, Long, Criticism

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

Motivation, Friday, Paycheck

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

Good, Mind, Enough

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel Coward

Love, Peace, Hope

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward

Fact, Often, Memory

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

Life, Through, Second

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward

Wrong, Used, Opera

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

Age, Nothing, Old

The higher the building the lower the morals.
Noel Coward

Architecture, Building, Higher

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward

Music, Cheap, Potent

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

Mind, Same, Others

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

Treat, Wit, Glorious

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel Coward

Blame, Stars, Walk

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

Less, Guarantee, Reliable

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

Sometimes, Hours, Touching

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
Noel Coward

Thought, Sometimes, Again

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

Trip, Lines, Furniture

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

Sick, She, Looks

Work is much more fun than fun.
Noel Coward

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

May, Jesus, Works

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
Noel Coward

Exercise, Squash

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
Noel Coward

Success, Her, Took

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: December 16, 1899

Died: March 26, 1973

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