Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward
2
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward
3
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.
Noel Coward
4
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward
5
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
Noel Coward
6
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
Noel Coward
7
I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
Noel Coward
8
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward
9
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noel Coward
10
Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
Noel Coward
11
Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.
Noel Coward
12
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.
Noel Coward
13
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
Noel Coward
14
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noel Coward
15
Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
Noel Coward
16
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
Noel Coward
17
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
Noel Coward
18
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
Noel Coward
19
The higher the building the lower the morals.
Noel Coward
20
There's always something fishy about the French.
Noel Coward
21
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
Noel Coward
22
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward
