Classic Quotes by James Agate (1877-1947) English writer
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
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Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
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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. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.