It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins. — J. B. Priestley Church Copy Share Image
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. — J. B. Priestley Accidental Copy Share Image
To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another. — J. B. Priestley Education 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
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 Baffled 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 Appreciated 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Bed 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
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
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 Believe 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
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
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 Delighted 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 Energy Copy Share Image
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an… — J. B. Priestley Ideas Copy Share Image
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible… — J. B. Priestley Bombs Copy Share Image
I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written… — J. B. Priestley Actor Copy Share Image
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio… — J. B. Priestley Asia 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 Advertisement Copy Share Image
Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God. — J. B. Priestley Bent 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
