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Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
— Chris 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
Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.
— Jason 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
For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more.
— Chris Priestley
The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.
— J.B. Priestley
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
— Joseph Priestley
I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.
— Jason Priestley
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
— J.B. Priestley
But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating.
— Chris 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
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
— Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
— J.B. Priestley
You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.
— Jason Priestley
And where should mankind be without trees?
— Chris Priestley
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
— J.B. Priestley
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.
— Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior.
— Chris Priestley
I love filming in Britain.
— Jason 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
To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
— 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
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
— J.B. Priestley
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
— Joseph Priestley
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
— 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
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
— 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
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
— Rick Priestley
What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
— J.B. Priestley
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I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
— Joseph Priestley
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
— J.B. Priestley
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY
— Janice Lane Palko
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
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
— J.B. Priestley
To put failure behind you, face up to it.
— J.B. Priestley
To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
— J.B. Priestley
I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.
— Jason Priestley
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
— J.B. Priestley
I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and partings.
— Chris Priestley
Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished.
— Chris Priestley
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
— Joseph Priestley
But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people.
— 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
Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.
— Chris Priestley
Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?''What harm is there?' said the giant. — Chris Priestley
Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
— Chris 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 good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
— J.B. Priestley
I never exceed the posted speed limit.
— Jason Priestley
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Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
— Claude Bernard
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
— J.B. Priestley
Reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are like crack for authors. Feed your favorite writer's habit today!
— Sabine Priestley
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
— Joseph Priestley
What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.
— Chris Priestley
To multiply your joy, count your blessings.
— 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 different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
— Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.
— J.B. Priestley
We cannot get grace from gadgets.
— J.B. Priestley
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
— Chris 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
Western man is schizophrenic.
— J.B. Priestley
Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse?
— Chris Priestley
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
— J.B. Priestley
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
— J.B. Priestley
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
— Joseph 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
I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.
— Jason Priestley
