217 Quotes by Noel Coward

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

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

It's never too early for a cocktail.

The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.

I also avoid green vegetables. They’re grossly overrated.

Work hard, do the best you can, don’t ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.