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
deception few people
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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.
thinking people normal
AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.
eye power people
Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?
love-you people wonderful
To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.
travel home people
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
hard-work people faith-in-yourself
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.
honesty people deceit
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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.