Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
– Noel Coward
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
– Noel Coward
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
– Noel Coward
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
– Noel Coward
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
– Noel Coward
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
– Noel Coward
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
– Noel Coward
I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
– Noel Coward
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
– Noel Coward
It was not Cafe Society, it was Nescafe Society.
– Noel Coward
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
– Noel Coward
Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
– Noel Coward
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
– Noel Coward
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
– Noel Coward
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.
– Noel Coward
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
– Noel Coward
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
– Noel Coward
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
– Noel Coward
There's always something fishy about the French.
– Noel Coward
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
– Noel Coward
Work is much more fun than fun.
– Noel Coward
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
– Noel Coward
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
– Noel Coward
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.