Noel Coward

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

I've always been fascinated by the way people behave in groups.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I will or will not be doing.

The English have a wonderful capacity for enjoying themselves without making a fuss about it.

I believe in doing what I can do. I don't believe in trying to be everything to everyone.

Humor is a rubber sword - it does not hurt, but it can be very effective.

In the end, we all die alone, but we live in the company of others.

The stage is my home, and I am its perpetual guest.

I have no talent for making new friends, but I am a genius at keeping old ones.

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how it's done, but they can't do it themselves.

Life is too short to be small.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

My life has been full of incident, but I have never been in danger.

I am determined to enjoy my life, come what may.

Theater is the art of making the invisible visible.

I have always believed that if you treat people with respect, they will respond in kind.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never a cheap, stinking sandwich.

In my opinion, the theater should be a place of enchantment.