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… — James Agate Copy Share Image
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… — James Agate Copy Share Image
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. — James Agate Copy Share Image
This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of… — James Agate Copy Share Image
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… — James Agate Copy Share Image
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. — James Agate Copy Share Image
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. — James Agate Copy Share Image
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or… — James Agate Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis. — James Agate Copy Share Image
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. — James Agate Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
