Author: J. B. Priestley

Quotes

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

- J. B. Priestley

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

- 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.

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

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

- J. B. Priestley

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

- J. B. Priestley

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

- J. B. Priestley

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

- 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.

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

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

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

- J. B. Priestley

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