Quotations From NOËL COWARD

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  Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

  Noël Coward (1899-1973), British actor, playwright, composer. Amanda, in Private Lives, act 1 (1930), published in Play Parade (1931). In the 1930 recording of the play, the words (spoken by Gertrude Lawrence) were "Strange how potent cheap music is."
  
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• 2.

  Certain women should be struck regularly like gongs.

  Noël Coward (1899-1973), British actor, playwright, composer. Elyot, in Private Lives, act 3 (1930), published in Play Parade (1931).
  
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  You don't hold any mystery for me, darling, do you mind? There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

  Noël Coward (1899-1973), British playwright, actor, composer. Elyot, in Private Lives, act 1.
  
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  That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

  Noël Coward (1899-1973), British playwright, actor, composer. John Cavan, in Post-Mortem, sc. 6.
  
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