Noel Coward Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Noel Coward:
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
~Noel Coward
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Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
~Noel Coward
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
~Noel Coward
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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
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Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
~Noel Coward
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
~Noel Coward
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Work is much more fun than fun.
~Noel Coward
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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.
~Noel Coward
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
~Noel Coward
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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
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I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
~Noel Coward
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I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
~Noel Coward
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I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
~Noel Coward
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We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
~Noel Coward
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If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
~Noel Coward
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Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
~Noel Coward
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Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
~Noel Coward
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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
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My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
~Noel Coward
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Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
~Noel Coward
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
~Noel Coward
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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~Noel Coward
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It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~Noel Coward
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I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
~Noel Coward
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The higher the building the lower the morals.
~Noel Coward
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There's always something fishy about the French.
~Noel Coward
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Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
~Noel Coward
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