Noël Coward

“An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the future would be kinderAnd never knew the loneliness of night.”

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

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

“Strange how potent cheap music is.”

“Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.”

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

“If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.”

“All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.”