Quotes of J. B. Priestley - somelinesforyou

“ I sometimes wish they would swagger more now, buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats, and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds, which is what, at heart - bless 'em - they are. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. ”

- 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. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference. ”

- 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

“ The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference. ”

- 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. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. ”

- 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. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ I sometimes wish they would swagger more now, buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats, and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds, which is what, at heart - bless 'em - they are. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. ”

- 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

“ If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ”

- 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. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. ”

- J. B. Priestley
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