Noel Coward Quotes

I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

When you sit around with a Britisher, he usually gets 80 percent of the deal

… the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists upon being treated as the most easterly of western peoples, instead of the most westerly of easterns, that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

Historically, postwar black immigrants to Britain were concerned less with preserving their cultural differences than in achieving political equality. The political elite, on the other hand, has been obsessed by the question of cultural difference.

I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat.

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

Australia's not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

Do you ever think of moving back?" "To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first time Gavin asked me out it was just to hear me talk. Lucky for him, it's one of the things I do best." All teasing left her eyes. "Too many memories back home. Can't drive down the street without thinking I see Scott in the crowd.

Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

Thank god I'm in England, because if I lived in any other country, it'd probably be the Philippines. Because with Rodrigo Duterte as the leader they couldn't really give me attitude on Donald Trump.

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.