Quotes by James Agate - Page 1

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.
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Bed
Made
Mind
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My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
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Bed
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Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
James Agate /
Pay
Play
Plays
Price
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To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.
James Agate /
Money
Determined
Force
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
James Agate /
Home
Men
Travel
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Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
James Agate /
Pity
Me Nothing Never
Now
Ever
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The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
James Agate /
Failure
Kind
Worst
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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate /
Directors
Engaged
Management
Player
Theatre
Conceal
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Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
James Agate /
Experience
Long
Theatre
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Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.
James Agate /
Busy
Theory
Ultras
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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 /
Englishmen
Long
Sex
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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate /
New Year
New Year's
Great Year
My Time
Old Year
Resolution
Tolerate
Years
Time New More
Does
Year
Them
Take
Encourage
Fools
Gladly
Provided
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New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.
James Agate /
New Year
Resolution
Witty
Years
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In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
James Agate /
Women
Expression
Sheep
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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.
James Agate /
Women
Feet
Years
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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.
James Agate /
Missing
Reading
Writing
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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.
James Agate /
Jobs
Work
Men
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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…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
James Agate /
Bed
Mind
Want
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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 /
New York
Horse
Night
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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.
James Agate /
Events
Mad
World
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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 /
Abnormal
Force
Looks
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