We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
Noel CowardI'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.
Noel CowardI never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.
Noel CowardOf course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.
Noel Coward