“ I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. Noel Coward
“ As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on. Noel Coward
“ My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday. Noel Coward
“ My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. Noel Coward
“ 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. Noel 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… Noel Coward
“ The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallow… Noel Coward
“ Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary. Noel Coward
“ It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward
