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Quotes by J. B. Priestley

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
– 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
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
– J. B. Priestley
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
– 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
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.
– J. B. Priestley
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
– 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
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
– 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
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
– J. B. Priestley
The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
– J. B. Priestley
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
– 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
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
– J. B. Priestley
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
– J. B. Priestley
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
– J. B. Priestley
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
– J. B. Priestley
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
– 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
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
– 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