217 Quotes by Noel Coward

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

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.

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.

ERNEST FRIEDLANDER: Be quiet! Be quiet!LEO MERCURÉ: Why should we be quiet? You’re making enough row to blast the roof off! Why should you have the monopoly of noise? Why should your pompous moral pretensions be allowed to hurdle across the city without any competition? We’ve all got lungs. Let’s use them! Let’s shriek like mad! Let’s enjoy ourselves!

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.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the future would be kinderAnd never knew the loneliness of night.