Noel Coward Quotes

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• I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
• She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.
• He's completely unspoiled by failure.
• I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the…
• Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow…
• You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on…
• I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night…
• Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
• Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
• I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go…
• I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.
• I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not..
• The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most…
• Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
• Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.
• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch…
• Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
• Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
• Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
• Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.

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