Time Will Soon Quotes by J. B. Priestley

More Quotes by J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
• In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
• The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
• But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
• Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
• There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
• The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
• There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
• Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…
• The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…
• We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…

See all 62 quotes by J. B. Priestley »