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 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
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
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — 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
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in… — J. B. Priestley 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
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent… — 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 their differences. — J. B. Priestley 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 of himself. — J. B. Priestley 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 be something… — J. B. Priestley 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 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 of a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J. B. Priestley 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 of magic… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley 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 on himself,… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
