"The most lasting reputation I have is for……" — J. B. Priestley
"The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart."
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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley
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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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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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I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.
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Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance…
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Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us…
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections,…
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An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive…
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There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
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