Norwich Quote by J. B. Priestley Download Open image “What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!” — J. B. Priestley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Norwich Old places Sensible
I've got a lot of respect for Norwich City as a football club, there's some really good people there. — Paul Lambert Copy Share Image
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I can only speak highly of my time at Norwich. It was brilliant for me. I loved it there, and I think the fans… — James Maddison Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share
For years, I've mocked Norfolk and King's Lynn, and now I find out I'm from there! — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself,… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect… — Paul Ince Copy Share Image
I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership… — Phil Cornwell Copy Share Image
Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got — Jimmy Greaves Copy Share Image
I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers! — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image