James Agate Quotes

James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardian in 1907–1914. He later became a drama critic for The Saturday Review , The Sunday Times and the BBC . The nine volumes of Agate's diaries and letters cover the British theatre of his time and non-theatrical interests such as sports, social gossip and private preoccupations with health and finances. He published three novels, translated a play briefly staged in London, and regularly published collections of theatre essays and reviews. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. September 1877 – 6. June 1947
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Famous James Agate Quotes

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

Ego 8 (1947), p. 255, November 25, 1945
Of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

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

Ego, p. 276, March 10, 1933.

“The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.”

Ego 7 (1945), p. 153, July 21, 1944.
On von Stauffenberg's bomb plot.

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