Quotes by : J. B. Priestley

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

I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those....

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,....

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

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

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more....

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before....

One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as....

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American....