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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J.B. Priestley

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. — J.B. Priestley

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit. — J.B. Priestley

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. — J.B. Priestley

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere. — J.B. Priestley

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

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY — Janice Lane Palko

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. — J.B. Priestley

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J.B. Priestley

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. — J.B. Priestley

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. — J.B. Priestley

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. — J.B. Priestley

To put failure behind you, face up to it. — J.B. Priestley

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. — J.B. Priestley

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

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. — J.B. Priestley

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. — J.B. Priestley

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. — J.B. Priestley

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. — J.B. Priestley

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is! — J.B. Priestley

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. — J.B. Priestley

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison. — J.B. Priestley

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. — J.B. Priestley

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. — J.B. Priestley

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J.B. Priestley

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J.B. Priestley

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J.B. Priestley

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. — J.B. Priestley

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins. — J.B. Priestley

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. — J.B. Priestley

But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people. — J.B. Priestley

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them. — J.B. Priestley

To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ. — J.B. Priestley

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. — J.B. Priestley

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace. — J.B. Priestley

The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one's pants to the seat of one's chair — J.B. Priestley

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God. — J.B. Priestley

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him. — J.B. Priestley

Western man is schizophrenic. — J.B. Priestley

The greatest writers of this age ... are aware of the mystery of our existence. — J.B. Priestley

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. — J.B. Priestley

We cannot get grace from gadgets. — J.B. Priestley

Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges. — J.B. Priestley

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another. — J.B. Priestley

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. — J.B. Priestley

To multiply your joy, count your blessings. — J.B. Priestley

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. — J.B. Priestley