James Agate Quotes

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be. - James Agate

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. - James Agate

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. - James Agate

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. - James Agate

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces. - James Agate

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. - James Agate

I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. - James Agate

I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. - James Agate

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. - James Agate

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