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

— 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

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English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer 1899–1973

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