33 Quotes by James Agate

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

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

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

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

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

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

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

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