Playwright

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

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My first stage play was a play about a family, an unhappy family, divided against itself, and it was originally called Retreats.

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My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

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I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

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You are no better than you should be.

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Bad's the best of us.

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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

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Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

- Noel Coward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

- Noel Coward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

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Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

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We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

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It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

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A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

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A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

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He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

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How would you know a Cork footballer He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

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The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.

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If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

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