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
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.
funny humor men
Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.
funny humor may
Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)
funny humorous people
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
funny beautiful humor
The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.
funny dog boys
It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.
funny marriage sometimes
I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
funny humor long
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
known
I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all
pleasure rather sand
There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.
audience love mind somebody work
Put somebody you love in the audience in your mind and work for them,
appearing convinced looking television time
Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at
began believe life since talent
I believe that since my life began / The most I've had is just / A talent to amuse.
bump learn lines
Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.