Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

— Noël Coward

Noël Coward Quotes

I can’t sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

— Noël Coward

I’m an enormously talented man, and there’s no use pretending that I’m not...

— Noël Coward

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

— Noël Coward

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

— Noël Coward

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don’t care to, the Chinese wouldn’t dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

— Noël Coward

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

— Noël Coward

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

— Noël Coward

Wit is like caviar – it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

— Noël Coward

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.

— Noël Coward

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

— Noël Coward

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

— Noël Coward

Star quality: I don’t know what it is, but I’ve got it.

— Noël Coward

Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.

— Noël Coward

I’m over-educated in the things I shouldn’t have known at all.

— Noël Coward

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

— Noël Coward

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

— Noël Coward

Never mind, dear, we’re all made the same, though some more than others.

— Noël Coward

Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.

— Noël Coward

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.

— Noël Coward

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.

— Noël Coward
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