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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 Britain 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
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
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
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 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
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. — J. B. Priestley Clothes 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
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
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
To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace. — J. B. Priestley Forget 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
