Noel Coward

The only way to succeed in the theater is to be brilliant.

I have always paid income tax in England, but I like to feel that I'm also working for the good of the country.

Mad about the boy, it's pretty funny but I'm mad about the boy.

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans.

I was surrounded by a world of men and when I was twenty-one I married the first good man I'd known.

Work is much more fun than fun.

I go in for being a rationalist. I'm profoundly rationalist.

The best jokes are the ones that make you laugh even when you don't want to.

In the first act, you get them in. In the second, you get down to cases. In the third, you get them out.

I enjoy my rights as much as anyone, but I believe that the theater is a public place and that one has certain responsibilities.

Life is a cabaret, old chum.

I'm an incorrigible old cynic, but I find that the more I see of the world, the more I believe in people.

Success is a sort of metropolitan vulgarity.

I have been proven wrong so often that I now have a healthy respect for the unknown.

The theater is the most beautiful place on earth, but the profession is a nightmare.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Any couple that gets along for seven years is lucky.

I always say that if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love.

The only charm of a play is the first act.

I am a man of many moods, but I am never bored.