Quotes by : J. B. Priestley

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....

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

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....

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