Quotes by Noel Coward

Noel Coward

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Good Things

Government

Too Late

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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.

Glasses

Martini

Perfect

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Acting is not a state of being … but a state of appearing to be.

Acting

States

Theatre

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Acting is not a state of being … but a state of appearing to be. You can’t be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You’ve got to be in control.

Eight

Mad

Theatre

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AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

Normal

People

Thinking

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An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma’s jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I’d like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

Children

Eye

Heart

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Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I’m not a vegetarian. I’m neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.

Food

Pigs

Virginia

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

Different

Hats

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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.

Dog

Mad

Twelve

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Bed is the perfect climate.

Bed

Climate

Perfect

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