Quotes of James Agate - somelinesforyou

“ The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. ”

- James Agate

“ Theater director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ”

- James Agate

“ Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly… ”

- James Agate

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

- James Agate

“ The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ”

- James Agate

“ The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ”

- 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

“ The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. ”

- 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

“ The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. ”

- James Agate

“ Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly… ”

- 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

“ The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ”

- James Agate

“ Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly… ”

- James Agate

“ The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. ”

- James Agate

“ Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis. ”

- 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

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

- James Agate

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

- James Agate

“ The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. ”

- James Agate

“ The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. ”

- James Agate

“ Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces. ”

- James Agate

“ Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly… ”

- James Agate

“ The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. ”

- James Agate
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