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“She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.”
“Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.”
“Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society”
“Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.”
Source: Play Parade
“Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.”
Source: Relative Values: A Light Comedy in Three Acts
“I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.”
Source: The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times
“How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?”
Source: The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times
“Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.”
“For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.”
“I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.”
Source: The Letters of Noel Coward
Source: The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times
“I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.”
Source: A Noël Coward gala: his words and music, volume two
“The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.”
“You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.”
“If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.”
“I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.”
“It's never too early for a cocktail.”
Source: Play Parade
“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”
Source: The Letters of Noel Coward
Source: Hay fever. The vortex. Fallen angels. Easy virtue
“Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
Source: Home Chat
“Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can”
Source: Play Parade