James AgateThe Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.372Philosophy
James AgateThe English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. ✨ James Agate (1951). The Later Ego: Consisting of Ego 8 and Ego 9374Politics
James AgateIn her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael. ✨ James Agate (1946). A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego … ▶331Sadness
James AgateI 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. ✨ 1943 Journal entry, 9… ▶333Thought
James AgateMy mind is not a bed to be made and remade. ✨ 'Ego 6' (1944) 9 June 1943312Thought
James AgateA 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 (1946). A Shorter … ▶313Reading
James AgateThe 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 … ▶3710Philosophy
James AgateTheatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ✨ James Agate (1944). Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate… ▶349Truth
James AgateThis 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 (1940). Ego 4: yet more of the … ▶329Humanity
James AgateNew Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. ✨ James Agate (1946). A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Eg… ▶286Time
James AgateThe worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ✨ James Agate (1949). A Shorter Ego: Ego 7, Ego 8, Ego 9227Hope
