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My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation thin...

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My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wand...

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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in s...

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Work is more fun than fun.

An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the futur...

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The Complete Verse of Noël Coward

Strange how potent cheap music is.

Private Lives

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and...

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The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s ...

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I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Collected Sketches and Lyrics

Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosop...

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A Talent To Amuse: A Biography Of Noël Coward

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . ....

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I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with havin...

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

As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable He...

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It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

Work is much more fun than fun.

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Noël Coward

Playwright

Born: 1899-12-16

Died: 1973-03-26

Noël Peirce Coward (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an English playwright, composer of popular music and actor.More