It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J. B. Priestley Facts Copy Share Image
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J. B. Priestley Children Copy Share Image
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. — J. B. Priestley Comedy Copy Share Image
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. — J. B. Priestley Clothes Copy Share Image
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick… — J. B. Priestley Allies Copy Share Image
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. — J. B. Priestley Children Copy Share Image
If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs,… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by… — J. B. Priestley Death Copy Share Image
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must… — J. B. Priestley Birth Copy Share Image
Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass-… — J. B. Priestley Advertising Copy Share Image
I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun;… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do… — J. B. Priestley Beautiful Copy Share Image
A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it,… — J. B. Priestley Cold Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must… — J. B. Priestley Books Copy Share Image
In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle… — J. B. Priestley Differences Copy Share Image
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool… — J. B. Priestley Fool Copy Share Image
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,… — J. B. Priestley Age Copy Share Image
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and… — J. B. Priestley Affectionate Copy Share Image
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't… — J. B. Priestley Faces Copy Share Image
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can.… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for… — J. B. Priestley Biological warfare Copy Share Image
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit. — J. B. Priestley Actor Copy Share Image
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted… — J. B. Priestley Coffee Copy Share Image
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go… — J. B. Priestley Genius Copy Share Image
