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
