Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed. — Noel Coward Jesus Copy Share Image
“I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.” — Noel Coward Annoy Copy Share Image
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second. — Noel Coward Class Copy Share Image
I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise. — Noel Coward Amount Copy Share Image
It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him. — Noel Coward Behinds Copy Share Image
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward Deceit Copy Share Image
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. — Noel Coward Friendship Copy Share Image
There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About… — Noel Coward Around the corner Copy Share Image
You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was… — Noel Coward Inevitable Copy Share Image
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed… — Noel Coward British history Copy Share Image
I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I… — Noel Coward Accept Copy Share Image
It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play… — Noel Coward Acting Copy Share Image
I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I… — Noel Coward Business Copy Share Image
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build. — Noel Coward Bolshevism Copy Share Image
Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say… — Noel Coward Do the best Copy Share Image
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? — Noel Coward Afterlife Copy Share Image
How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini? — Noel Coward Cooking Copy Share Image
Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch. — Noel Coward Appear Copy Share Image
Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others. — Noel Coward Alike Copy Share Image
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere. — Noel Coward Inspirational Copy Share Image
I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all. — Noel Coward Educated Copy Share Image
Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. — Noel Coward Comedies Copy Share Image
“You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are.” — Noël Coward Decide Copy Share Image
“It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!” — Noël Coward Brandy Copy Share Image
That strange feeling we had inthe war. Have you found anything in your lives since toequal it in strength? A sort of… — Noël Coward Feeling Copy Share Image
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week… — Noel Coward Acting Copy Share Image
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… — Noel Coward Accepting Copy Share Image
I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love… — Noel Coward Age Copy Share Image
At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun. — Noel Coward Dog Copy Share Image
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 Eastern Copy Share Image
The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. — Noel Coward Beautiful Copy Share Image
To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much… — Noel Coward Love Copy Share Image
“Entering an white tie and tails party wearing an ordinary suit, he announced,"Please, I don't want anyone to apologize for over dressing.” — Noel Coward Party Wearing Copy Share Image
