33 Quotes by James Agate

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

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

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.

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

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.

Shaw’s plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.