33 Quotes by James Agate

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

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.

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.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

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

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

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.