Zitat des Tages von Noel Coward:
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
The higher the building the lower the morals.
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
There's always something fishy about the French.
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
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 a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?