its discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by decite
Noël CowardTo know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.
Noël CowardCriticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
Noël Cowardimagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...
Noël CowardIt is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.
Noël CowardCouldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions--crushing them down desperately!
Noël CowardAct I, Scene 1
GARRY: ....My worst defect is that I am apt to worry too much about what people think of me when I'm alive. But I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm changing my methods and you're my first experiment. As a rule, when insufferable young beginners have he impertinence to criticise me, I dismiss the whole thing lightly because I'm embarrassed for them and consider it not quite fair game to puncture their inflated egos too sharply. But this time my highbrow young friend you're going to get it in the neck. To begin with your play is not a play at all. It's a meaningless jumble of adolescent, pseudo intellectual poppycock. And you yourself wouldn't be here at all if I hadn't been bloody fool enough to pick up the telephone when my secretary wasn't looking. Now that you are here, however, I would like to tell you this. If you wish to be a playwright you just leave the theater of to-morrow to take care of itself. Go and get yourself a job as a butler in a repertory company if they'll have you. Learn from the ground up how plays are constructed and what is actable and what isn't. Then sit down and write at least twenty plays one after the other, and if you can manage to get the twenty-first produced for a Sunday night performance you'll be damned lucky!
ROLAND (hypnotised): I'd no idea you were like this. You're wonderful!
It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.
Noël CowardTime is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.
Noël CowardMots clés humor
Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
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