Quotes by Agate, James

Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with inte >>

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he ca >>

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ev >>

Quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given >>

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom >>

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. >>

Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat, drink, smoke, and relax. 4. 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. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Agate, James