James Agate

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

I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to read more

I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but read more

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

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.

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.