Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. — J. B. Priestley Clothes 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
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. — J. B. Priestley Slang Copy Share Image
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 resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace. — J. B. Priestley Forget Copy Share Image
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him. — J. B. Priestley Criticize Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Better 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
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 Baths 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
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 Bombed 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
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 Discovering 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
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 Be encouraged Copy Share Image
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley Battle Copy Share Image
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin… — J. B. Priestley Areas Copy Share Image
Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack… — J. B. Priestley Absurd Copy Share Image
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless… — J. B. Priestley Aircraft Copy Share Image
On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found… — J. B. Priestley Accounts 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 Business Copy Share Image
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have… — J. B. Priestley Civilization 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 Accepted Copy Share Image
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a… — J. B. Priestley Ache 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 Fancy Copy Share Image
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J. B. Priestley Clever Copy Share Image
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them. — J. B. Priestley Bovine Copy Share Image
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. — J. B. Priestley Advertisement Copy Share Image
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. — J. B. Priestley Age Copy Share Image
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. — J. B. Priestley Handsome Copy Share Image
What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is! — J. B. Priestley Norwich Copy Share Image
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. — J. B. Priestley Delivery Copy Share Image
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