Quotes from Noel Coward

"If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday."

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Work is more fun than fun.

Christmas is at our throats again.

He's completely unspoiled by failure.

Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

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.

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.

I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love with my rocking horse.

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.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

But I believe that since my life beganThe most I've had is justA talent to amuse.

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

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

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

I'll see you again,Whenever spring breaks through again.

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

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.

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.

There's always something fishy about the French.