Quotes from Noel Coward

its discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by decite

Entering an white tie and tails party wearing an ordinary suit, he announced,"Please, I don't want anyone to apologize for over dressing.

She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.

Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society.

There are dark times just around the corner. There are dark clouds travelling through the sky. And it's no good whining about a silver lining. For we know from experience they won't roll by.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

A.E. Matthews ambled through This Was a Man like a charming retriever who has buried a bone and can't quite remember where.