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....

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

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

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something in....

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps....

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable....

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

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....