Noël Coward Short Quotes

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Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.
Instructions to young actors

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In Bengal,
To move at all
Is seldom if ever done.

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Dance, dance, dance, little lady!
Leave tomorrow behind.

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Have moved hotel excelsior coughing myself into a firenze.
Telegram from Florence

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

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

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Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

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Do I believe in God? Let's say we have a working relationship.

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Poor little rich girl
You're a bewitched girl,
Better beware!

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

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There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

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Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can

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Time is the reef upon which all of our frail mystic ships are wrecked.

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I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

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I'm not very keen on Hollywood. I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa really.

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Charles: Anything interesting in The Times?
Ruth: Don't be silly, Charles.

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I read the Times and if my name is not in the obits I proceed to enjoy the day.

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Someday I'll find you,
Moonlight behind you,
True to the dream I am dreaming.

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But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

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Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

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The world has treated me very well, but then I haven't treated it so badly either.

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But I believe that since my life began The most I've had is just A talent to amuse.

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Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel,
When the right people stay back home?

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She [Edith Evans] took her curtain calls as though she had just been un-nailed from the cross.

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There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed,
And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

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AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

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Every wise and thoroughly worldly wench
Knows there's always something fishy about the French!

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Anna Neagle playing Queen Victoria always made me think that Albert must have married beneath him.

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We hope to amuse the customers with music and with rhyme
But ninety minutes is a long, long time.

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I believe we should all behave quite differently if we lived in a warm, sunny climate all the time.

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