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Sir Noël Peirce Coward est un dramaturge britannique, né à Teddington le 16 décembre 1899 et mort à Port Maria le 26 mars 1973. Célèbre pour son esprit, son élégance et son originalité, il fut également scénariste, acteur, compositeur, réalisateur et producteur. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. décembre 1899 – 26. mars 1973  •  Autres noms Sir Noel Coward
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Noël Coward: 49 citations0 J'aime

Noël Coward: Citations en anglais

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”

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Noel Coward Blithe Spirit

Source: Blithe Spirit

“Amanda: Whose yacht is that?
Elyot: The Duke of Westminster's I expect. It always is.
Amanda: I wish I were on it.
Elyot: I wish you were too.
Amanda: There's no need to be nasty.
Elyot: Yes, there is every need. I've never in my life felt a greater urge to be nasty.”

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Noel Coward Private Lives

Private Lives (1930)

“Television is for appearing on, not looking at.”

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Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=nxwE_NdDW_QC&amp;q=%22Television+is+for+appearing+on+not+looking+at%22&amp;pg=PA585#v=onepage with Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person ( 27 April 1956 http://www.tv.com/shows/person-to-person/april-27-1956-1042583) <br class="br">2007 <br class="br">The Letters of Noël Coward <br class="br">Noël Coward <br class="br">Barry Day <br class="br">illustrated <br class="br">Alfred A. Knopf <br class="br">9780375423031 <br class="br">585 <br class="br">http://books.google.com/books?id=yAxmAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22Time+has+convinced+me+of+one+thing.+Television+is+for+appearing+on,+not+looking+at%22&amp;pgis=1

“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”

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Noel Coward

Source: Collected Sketches and Lyrics

“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”

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“Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?”

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“Amanda: Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”

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Noel Coward Private Lives

Source: Private Lives (1930)

“What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.”

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Noel Coward

“Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.”

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Noel Coward

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

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Noel Coward

Source: Quote in Margaret McManus, "Noël Coward a 'Blithe Spirit' — in Sunny Jamaica", The Des Moines Register (January 8, 1956), Section: Iowa TV Magazine, p. 5

“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”

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Noel Coward

Source: Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts

“Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon
The author of Lear remains unshaken
Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton
What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.”

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Noel Coward

A Question of Values.

“On the silverscreen
He melts my foolish heart in every single scene
Although I'm quite aware that here and there are traces of the cad
About the boy”

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Noel Coward

Mad About the Boy (1932)

“Gary: You ought never to have joined the Athenaeum Club, Henry: it was disastrous.
Henry: I really don’t see why.
Gary: It’s made you pompous.
Henry: It can’t have. I’ve always been too frightened to go into it.”

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Noel Coward Present Laughter

Present Laughter (1939)

“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.”

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Me and the Girls (1964).

“People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be — that's what's wrong with it!”

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Noel Coward Design for Living

Design for Living, Act 3, Scene I (1933).

“The stately homes of England we proudly represent,
We only keep them up for Americans to rent.
Tho' the pipes that supply the bathroom burst
And the lavat’ry makes you fear the worst
It was used by Charles the First (quite informally),
And later by George the Fourth on a journey north,
The state apartments keep their historical reknown,
It's wiser not to sleep there in case they tumble down;
But still if they ever catch on fire
Which with any luck they might,
We'll fight for the stately homes of England.”

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The Stately Homes of England from Operette (1937).

“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.”

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Noel Coward Present Laughter

Present Laughter (1939)

“In a jungle town
Where the sun beats down
To the rage of man and beast,
The English garb
Of the English sahib
Merely gets a bit more creased.
In Bangkok
At twelve'o'clock
They foam at the mouth and run,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.”

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1930)

“Wrongly attributed to Noel Coward is a quotation about the Queen of Tonga. He is alleged to have been sitting under cover from the heavy rain with Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent at the Coronation in London in 1953. Opposite them was the vast Queen Salote of Tonga. Princess Marina is supposed to have asked "Noel, who is that little man sheltering under Queen Salote's umbrella?" Coward is said to have peered through the rain and said "Oh, her lunch, my dear." In a later interview with Walter Harris, Coward revealed it had been said by someone at White's Club and was immediately attributed to Coward. "It was very flattering of course, except that I had intended to visit Tonga the following winter, and after that of course it was quite impossible."”

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Interview with Walter Harris in 1960 reported in The Times (26 May 2009).

“It seems such a shame
When the English claim
The Earth,
That they give rise
To such hilarity
And mirth.”

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1930)

“In Hong Kong
They strike a gong
And fire off a noonday gun
To reprimand
Each inmate
Who's in late.”

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1930)

“In Bengal,
To move at all
Is seldom if ever done.”

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1930)

“Elyot: I met her on a house party in Norfolk.
Amanda: Very flat, Norfolk.
Elyot: There's no need to be unpleasant.
Amanda: That was no reflection on her, unless of course she made it flatter.”

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Noel Coward Private Lives

Private Lives (1930)

“Our families have traditions
We've heard of a thousand times
Our ancestors were unequivocally right.
They frequently went on missions
To rather peculiar climes
To lead the wretched heathen to the light.
Though some of them got beaten up and some of them stampeded
And quite a lot were eaten up - a few of them succeeded.
On one of these expeditions
An uncle we thought a bore
Turned out to be more spirited than ever he'd been before. Poor Uncle Harry
Wanted to be a missionary
So he took a ship and sailed away.
This visionary
Hotly pursued by dear Aunt Mary
Found a South Sea isle on which to stay.
The natives greeted them kindly,
And invited them to dine
On yams and clams and human hams and vintage coconut wine
The taste of which was filthy
But the after-effects divine.”

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Uncle Harry from Pacific 1860 (1946).

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