Noel Coward famous quotes

05-21-2025

Work is much more fun than fun.
-- Noel Coward

#Fun #Work
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
-- Noel Coward

#Long #Criticism #Literature
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
-- Noel Coward

#Honesty #People #Deceit
I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward

#Marriage #Sometimes
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
-- Noel Coward

#Witty #Writing #Caviar
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
-- Noel Coward

#Laughing #Theatre #Cry
I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
-- Noel Coward

#Moving #Home #Theatre
Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
-- Noel Coward

#Television
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
-- Noel Coward

#Motivational #Friday #Thinking
Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?
-- Noel Coward

#Drinking #Breakfast #Drink
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

#Birthday #Tuesday #Age
It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.
-- Noel Coward

#Funny #Dog #Boys
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
-- Noel Coward

#Music #Work #Music Is
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
-- Noel Coward

#Stars #Believe #Astrology
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
-- Noel Coward

#Memories #Elephants #Facts
In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.
-- Noel Coward

#Believe #Play #Laughing
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
-- Noel Coward

#Doors #Making Love #Answers
Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
-- Noel Coward

#Friday #Motivation #Work
Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?
-- Noel Coward

#Country #Tea
Grab it while you can â€” grab every scrap of happiness while you can
-- Noel Coward

#Scrap
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
-- Noel Coward

#Sick #Looks #Mona Lisa
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
-- Noel Coward

#Travel #Home #People
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.
-- Noel Coward

#Philosophy #Writing #Views
How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.
-- Noel Coward

#Thinking #Doors #Lunch
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
-- Noel Coward

#Drinking #Beer #Touching
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
-- Noel Coward

#Class #Firsts #Literature
Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.
-- Noel Coward

#Hard Work #People #Faith In Yourself
It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see, That though the English are effete They're quite impervious to heat.
-- Noel Coward

#Eye #England #Heat

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