James Agate

"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…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made."

"I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain."

"Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything."

"The producer. This is 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 he can't pretend that, he will look through the object, or round it, or above it or below it, or in any di…"

"“A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it."

"Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces."

"The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importa…"