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J B Priestley Quotes

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth  (J B Priestley Quotes) To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven  (J B Priestley Quotes) To multiply your joy, count your blessings  (J B Priestley Quotes) To put failure behind you, face up to it  (J B Priestley Quotes) I know only two words of American slang, ‘swell’ and ‘lousy’. I think ‘swell’ is lousy, but ‘lousy’ is swell  (J B Priestley Quotes) 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 Quotes) Accidents, try to change them - it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man  (J B Priestley Quotes) To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own - this is happiness  (J B Priestley Quotes) 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  (J B Priestley Quotes) 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  (J B Priestley Quotes) A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him  (J B Priestley Quotes) The real lost souls don’t wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don’t give their parents a moment’s worry  (J B Priestley Quotes) Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument  (J B Priestley Quotes) 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  (J B Priestley Quotes) 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  (J B Priestley Quotes) In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences  (J B Priestley Quotes) In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board  (J B Priestley Quotes) If you are a genius, you’ll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write  (J B Priestley Quotes) 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  (J B Priestley Quotes) No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith  (J B Priestley Quotes) She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years  (J B Priestley Quotes) One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going  (J B Priestley Quotes) 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 Quotes) California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character  (J B Priestley Quotes) The real lost souls don’t wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don’t give their parents a moment’s worry.  (J B Priestley Quotes) In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.  (J B Priestley Quotes) There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.  (J B Priestley Quotes) 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 Quotes) To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace  (J B Priestley Quotes) A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you’re going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you’re going all out.  (J B Priestley Quotes)
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