Noel Coward
Noel Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Cowardwas an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth16 December 1899
children heart eye
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.
sarcastic lips stampede
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
sarcastic mustache common
She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.
wisdom goal intelligence
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.
years perfect acting
Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.
funny clever drama
I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.
dying tomorrow famous-last-words
Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
wine air lines
The air is like a draught of wine. The undertaker cleans his sign, The Hull express goes off the line, When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.
sex littles impossible
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.
funny humor men
Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.
educated known
I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.
philosophy selfish reading
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.
funny humor may
Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)
loyalty years careers
Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.