Show business is dog eat dog. Worse than that, it's dog doesn't return other dog's phone calls.
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On costume drama:
Audiences don't like plays where people write letters with feathers.
Audiences don't like plays where people write letters with feathers.
The House of Lords must be the only institution in the world that is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of its members.
Mark Twain on the discovery of America:
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Noel Coward to a choreographer about a male dancer with an unsightly bulge:
For God's sake, go and tell that young man to take the Rockingham tea service out of his tights.
For God's sake, go and tell that young man to take the Rockingham tea service out of his tights.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Have the florist send some roses to Mrs Upjohn and write, "Emily I love you" on the back of the bill.
You write a hit song the same way you write a flop.
I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to me.
Real pain for your sham friends, champagne for your real friends.
First night cable from Noel Coward to Gertrude Lawrence:
A WARM HAND ON YOUR OPENING.
A WARM HAND ON YOUR OPENING.
Famous child actor Shirley Temple:
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Churchill.
Sex - the poor man's polo.
In God we trust, all others must pay cash.
Bloody mindedness is pointing to a stamp in the middle of the sheet in a Post Office:
I'll have that one please.
I'll have that one please.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Living is the other way round.
The older I get the more I believe that Other-World aliens use Earth as a lunatic asylum.