J. B. Priestley Short Quotes

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This is the age, among things, of chocolate.

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Men are much better than their ordinary life allows them to be.

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

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Here was a society dominated entirely by the masculine principle.

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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

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

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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

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God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn't exist.

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We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

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It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

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Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

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Anyone who is under the impression that the world is becoming too crowded should move to Nevada.

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Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

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As we read the school reports on our children we realize a sense of relief that…nobody is reporting in this fashion on us!

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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them.

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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

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Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

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Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

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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.

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Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

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Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

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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.

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In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

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The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

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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.

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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 to do in half a dozen lifetimes.

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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

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I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

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