Noel Coward

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

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.