"The point is to be good-to be sensitive…" — J. B. Priestley

"The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere."

— J. B. Priestley

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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley has 61 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…
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way…
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like…
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
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…
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking…
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If…
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were…
The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign…
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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