Maxioms by James Agate
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look read more
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.
I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of read more
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
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
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.
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.
