Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. — J. B. Priestley Comedy 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
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. — J. B. Priestley Catching 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 Appointments Copy Share Image
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. — J. B. Priestley Accidents 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
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
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
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
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
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for… — J. B. Priestley Respect 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 Baffled 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
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 Drink 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 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 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 Calling Copy Share Image
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes… — J. B. Priestley Age 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 Difficult 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 Almonds Copy Share Image
It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins. — J. B. Priestley Church Copy Share Image
