J. B. Priestley Quotes
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues a...
Show MoreI have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps...
Show MoreOne of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!
I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those...
Show MoreWe pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something ...
Show MoreLiving in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread befo...
Show MoreWe must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is hap...
Show MoreI never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor...
Show MoreThe more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his Amer...
Show MoreNowadays, it is true, we have mass media and expert propaganda to spread suspicion and fear. But the...
Show MoreWhat appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the ex...
Show MoreThere was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,...
Show MoreAccidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amia...
Show MoreComedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of the...
Show MoreThere was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age....
Show MoreShe was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
