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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
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
'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
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
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— 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