1920s Quote by Noel Coward

““She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.””

Noel Coward

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Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going…

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

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

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Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.

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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

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That strange feeling we had inthe war. Have you found anything in your lives since toequal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness…

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

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

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

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“A.E. Matthews ambled through This Was a Man like a charming retriever who has buried a bone and can't quite remember where.”

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“Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.”

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“I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.”

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“Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!”

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“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our…

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I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s…

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France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American…

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“But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't…

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I've always been into the music of the 1920s and 1930s.

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