“On the silverscreenHe melts my foolish heart in every single sceneAlthough I'm quite aware that here and there are traces of the cadAbout the boy”Noel Coward Mad About the Boy (1932)
“He loved me true did Harry-boy and I loved him true, and if the happiness we gave each other was wicked and wrong in the eyes of the Law and the Church and God Almighty, then the Law and the Church and God Almighty can go dig a hole and fall down it.”Noel Coward Me and the Girls (1964).
“Gary: Beryl Willard is extremely competent. Beryl Willard has been extremely competent, man and boy, for forty years. In addition to her extreme competence, she has contrived, with uncanny skill, to sustain a spotless reputation for being the most paralysing, epoch-making, monumental, world-shattering, God-awful bore that ever drew breath…I will explain one thing further - it is this. No prayer, no bribe, no threat, no power, human or divine, would induce me to go to Africa with Beryl Willard. I wouldn't go as far as Wimbledon with Beryl Willard.Liz: What he's trying to say is that he doesn't care for Beryl Willard.”Noel Coward Present LaughterPresent Laughter (1939)
“So if I could employA little magic that will finally destroyThis dream that pains me and enchains meBut I can't because I'm mad…I'm mad about the boy”Noel Coward Mad About the Boy (1932)
“Mad about the boyI know it's stupid to be mad about the boyI'm so ashamed of it but must admit the sleepless nights I've hadAbout the boy”Noel Coward Mad About the Boy (1932)
“Will it ever cloyThis odd diversity of misery and joyI'm feeling quite insane and young againAnd all because I'm mad about the boy”Noel Coward Mad About the Boy (1932)