The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. — J. B. Priestley Age 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 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
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
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. — J. B. Priestley 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 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 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 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 first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind… — J. B. Priestley 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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. — J. B. Priestley Delivery 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
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is! — J. B. Priestley Norwich Copy Share Image
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. — J. B. Priestley Comedy 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
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. — J. B. Priestley Clothes Copy Share Image
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
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