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James Agate quotes: In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

James Agate quotes: New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

James Agate quotes: 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.

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 quotes: New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate quotes: Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

James Agate quotes: To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

James Agate quotes: Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

James Agate quotes: The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

James Agate quotes: Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

James Agate quotes: Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

James Agate quotes: The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

James Agate quotes: A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.

James Agate quotes: The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.