"We pay when old for the excesses of…" — J. B. Priestley

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

— 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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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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