Noel Coward Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

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• Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Experience
  • Paradox
  • Beyond

• I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Friend
  • Smell
  • Vegetarian

• ...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Giving

• Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Way
  • Literature
  • Common

• Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Human

• I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!

  

  Claude Monet
  • Things
  • Weaving
  • Tackling

• You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Interested
  • Barrister

• I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

  

  Glenn Hughes Brazen Abbot
  • Guitar
  • Four
  • Bass

• You should always judge a book by its lovers.

  

  Ashok K. Banker
  • Book
  • Judge
  • Lovers

• I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • True
  • Pigs
  • Sausage

• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Mysterious

• May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Delivered

• Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

  

  Noel Coward
  • Contempt
  • Familiarity
  • Breed