"Britain, which in the years immediately before this……" — J. B. Priestley
"Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy."
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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley has 61 quotes on this site.
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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…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like…
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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…
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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…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were…
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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…
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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…
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Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
— John Belushi
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I…
— Halle Berry
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
— Benazir Bhutto
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If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air,…
— Unknown Author
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[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen,…
— Rudolph Rummel
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On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet…
— David Suzuki
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They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that
— Unknown Author
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The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We…
— Jimmie Walker
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No matter how Palestinians resist, they are shot, beaten, arrested, tortured, bombed, segregated, and collectively punished. The problem isn't the…
— Remi Kanazi
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I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the…
— Donald Rumsfeld
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Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and…
— Tom DeLay
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Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,
— Bill Ayers
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