Creative Quotations from . . .
James Agate
(1877-1947) born on Sep 09
English "critic, author". "He was a veteran theater columnist who wrote a nine-volume autobiography, "Ego," 1935."
 
   
F
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

R
"Don't pity me now, don't pity me never;
I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever."
A
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
N
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
K
"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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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Ego," 6"
R: ""A Charwoman's Epitaph," in "Ego," 14 Mar 1933."
A: ""The Selective Ego," "Ego 1;" ed. Tim Beaumont, 1976, Entry for 14 Oct. 1932."
N: Attributed.
K: "In "Treasury of Humorous Quotations," eds. William Cole and Louis Phillips, 1996."
   



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