15 Quotations by J. B. Priestley
- 1. Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborat ...
- 2. Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing ...
- 3. I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps ...
- 4. I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor ...
- 5. Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
- 6. Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread befo ...
- 7. Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki ...
- 8. One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
- 9. Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has d ...
- 10. She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
- 11. The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a w ...
- 12. The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my ...
- 13. There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. ...
- 14. To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
- 15. To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is ha ...
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