Noel Coward Quotes
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Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.
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I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.
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I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
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I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
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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 Friday.
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She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.
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Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.
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Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.
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Bed is the perfect climate.
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Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.
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A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
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We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
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Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
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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 emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.
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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 God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.
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It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.
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My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
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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.
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Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
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Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
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Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society
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Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.
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Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
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Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.
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At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.
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Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.
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A bloody good thing, but too late.
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I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.
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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.
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If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
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