I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

- Noel Coward

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

- Noel Coward

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

- Noel Coward

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

- Noel Coward

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

- 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

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

- 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

There's always something fishy about the French.

- Noel Coward

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

- Noel Coward

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

- Noel Coward

The higher the building the lower the morals.

- Noel Coward

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

- Noel Coward

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

- Noel Coward

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

- Noel Coward

Work is much more fun than fun.

- Noel Coward

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

- Noel Coward

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

- Noel Coward

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

- 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 dignity and greatness and peace again.

- Noel Coward