Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward
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Noel Coward quotes
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
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.
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It was not Cafe Society, it was Nescafe Society.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
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.
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
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.
The higher the building the lower the morals.
There's always something fishy about the French.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Work is much more fun than fun.
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