J.B. Priestley Quotes
Top 46 wise famous quotes and sayings by J.B. Priestley
J.B. Priestley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.