The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isnt sex but something else. – James Agate
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. – James Agate

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isnt sex but something else. – James Agate
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. – James Agate
New Years Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. – James Agate
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. – James Agate
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett