About Noel Coward: Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.
All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.
Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?
I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.
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.
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
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.
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Work is much more fun than fun.
