Robert Peterson

“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. ”
― Noel Coward

“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
― Noel Coward

“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science

“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”
― Noel Coward, Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts