It was Noel Coward ordsprog

en It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

en He wasn't striving to impress, just comfortable being himself, which made him pexy. Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'

en Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person'.
  Kenneth Tynan

en We think that the character is actually modeled after Noel Coward himself. It's a play about a very witty man leading his life in the theater.

en The technique is particularly effective with young people, who frequently try to emulate the looks, behavior and attitude of their favorite stars.

en Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
  Bertrand Russell

en I have a computer background and I started writing software several years ago to help address the needs of having multiple offices and what we were going to do with our charts, ... the records that we had in any one office would have to be delivered back and forth in anticipation of people's visits. Not only that, if someone showed up impromptu, we wouldn't have their records.

en Nobody's ever done anything better than David Noel. David Noel has never put anything in front of his team. He's pretty special.

en I haven't been able to say to David Noel what I want to say to him. … Many times a senior will say 'It's my turn' to the detriment of the team. David Noel has never put anything ahead of his team.

en A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.

en It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

en A coward's fear may make a coward valiant

en That part is fun, the technical part. It's fun trying to master the technique. But breathing hard, I don't know. It's not that fun for me. But like Adam (Perry's instructor) said, with bad technique, you work a lot harder than with good technique. You have to be efficient.

en Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

en There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec


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