People have died from hiccups, you know.

Noël Coward

Mots clés hiccups

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I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

Noël Coward

Mots clés wisdom

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All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

Noël Coward

Mots clés wwii leadership

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Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

Noël Coward

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If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

Noël Coward

Mots clés writing philosophy entertainment opinion drama craft surreptitious-meaning

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To hell with God damned "L'Amour." It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don't run after it. Don't court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you're good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves...

Noël Coward

Mots clés love

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[Garry Essendine]: That is no prostitute, but the wife of one of my best friends!

Noël Coward

Mots clés humor adultery coward noel-coward present-laughter

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In tropical climes, there are certain times of day,When the citiens retire to tear their clothes off and perspire.--It s one of those rules that the greatest fools obey,--because the sun is much too sultry, and one must avoid it s ultra-violet-ray.--Mad dogs and englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.--The Japanese don t care to, The Chinese wouldn t dare to. Hindoos and Argentines sleep firmly from twelwe to one.--But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

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