Noel Coward Quotes

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Noel Coward

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• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Man

• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• I was married for four years, then success happened.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Success
  • Years
  • Married

• I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Centre
  • Maelstrom

• I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Heart
  • End
  • New

• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth
  • Party
  • Powerful

• An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;Legions of angels can't confine me there.

  

  Edward Young
  • Angel

• Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

  

  Duke Ellington
  • Famous
  • Fate

• I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Time
  • Real
  • Worry

• My job is just to go out and play hard every day.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Job

• I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Different
  • Done
  • Truth

• I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • School
  • Power
  • Blue

• I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

  

  Lee Pace
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Please don't compare me with Taher Shah. He is a joker, while I am an artiste - I am a model and an actress. Taher Shah comes, makes people laugh, and goes away. I work with a lot of honesty.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Work
  • Model

• I am shocked when people talk about me and sum me up as: blonde, cold, and solemn. People will cling on to whatever reinforces their own assumptions about a person.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Cold
  • Talk
  • Blonde

• Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

  

  Gerry Spence
  • Simple
  • Winning
  • Human

• Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Spirit

• It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  

  Noel Coward
  • Honesty
  • Deceit
  • Shocked