Quotes by James Agate

• My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
• Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
• New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
• Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
• Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.