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J. B. Priestley has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…
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I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
— Brigitte Bardot
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose…
— Jonathan Swift
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Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life…
— S. Parkes Cadman
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Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered…
— Thom Hartmann
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls…
— Lucian
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear…
— Kingsley Amis
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
— Florence King
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May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of…
— George Washington
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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the…
— John Jay Chapman
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
— Epictetus
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
— Charles Dickens
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To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one…
— Elizabeth David
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