Noël Coward Quotes

Work is more fun than fun.

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

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

My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.

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

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.

The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallowing in it. It’s still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We’ve invented a few things that make noises, but we haven’t invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions.