Quotes from Noel Coward

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

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?

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Work is much more fun than fun.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.