Noel Coward

Elyot: Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

— Noel Coward

Amanda: Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

— Noel Coward

The natives grieveNuts.

— Noel Coward

It's such a surpriseThey're quite impervious to heat.

— Noel Coward

It seems such a shameAnd mirth.

— Noel Coward

In a jungle townGo out in the midday sun.

— Noel Coward

In Hong KongWho's in late.

— Noel Coward

Mad about the boyAbout the boy

— Noel Coward

On the silverscreenAbout the boy

— Noel Coward

Lord knows I'm not a fool girlIn the flurry of her first affair.

— Noel Coward

Will it ever cloyAnd all because I'm mad about the boy

— Noel Coward

So if I could employI'm mad about the boy

— Noel Coward

Gary: You ought never to have joined the Athenaeum Club, Henry: it was disastrous.Henry: It can’t have. I’ve always been too frightened to go into it.

— Noel Coward

Morris: I'll never speak to you again until the day I die!Gary: Well, we can have a nice little chat then, can't we?

— 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

[On the phone] "My dear Jim's dead...No dear, he jumped off Waterloo Bridge - Yes, the one next to Charing Cross - No, no, no that's Blackfriars."

— Noel Coward

He loved me true did Harry-boy and I loved him true, and if the happiness we gave each other was wicked and wrong in the eyes of the Law and the Church and God Almighty, then the Law and the Church and God Almighty can go dig a hole and fall down it.

— Noel Coward

Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. WorthingtonDon’t put your daughter on the stage.

— Noel Coward

People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be — that's what's wrong with it!

— Noel Coward

Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.

— Noel Coward

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

— Noel Coward

Christopher Marlowe or Francis BaconWhat does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

— Noel Coward

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

— Noel Coward

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

— Noel Coward

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

— Noel Coward

Amanda: Whose yacht is that?Elyot: Yes, there is every need. I've never in my life felt a greater urge to be nasty.

— Noel Coward

Elyot: I met her on a house party in Norfolk.Amanda: That was no reflection on her, unless of course she made it flatter.

— Noel Coward