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
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
New Years Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. – James Agate
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley