J B Priestley

J B Priestley: A lot of...

J B Priestley: A lot of...

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful...

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J B Priestley: A synopsis is...

J B Priestley: A synopsis is...

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...

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J B Priestley: Depending upon shock...

J B Priestley: Depending upon shock...

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

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J B Priestley: A loving wife...

J B Priestley: A loving wife...

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticising and trying to improve...

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J B Priestley: Comedy, we may...

J B Priestley: Comedy, we may...

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

Source: George...

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J B Priestley: I remember coming...

J B Priestley: I remember coming...

I remember coming across him at the Grand Canyon and finding him peevish, refusing to admire it or even look at it...

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J B Priestley: Already we Viewers,...

J B Priestley: Already we Viewers,...

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of...

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J B Priestley: I have always...

J B Priestley: I have always...

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

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J B Priestley: I have always...

J B Priestley: I have always...

I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice....

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J B Priestley: I'm in the...

J B Priestley: I'm in the...

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had...

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J B Priestley: If there was...

J B Priestley: If there was...

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good...

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J B Priestley: God can stand...

J B Priestley: God can stand...

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

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J B Priestley: Many a man...

J B Priestley: Many a man...

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

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J B Priestley: I know only...

J B Priestley: I know only...

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is...

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J B Priestley: One of the...

J B Priestley: One of the...

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

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J B Priestley: Our great-grandchildren, when...

J B Priestley: Our great-grandchildren, when...

Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn...

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J B Priestley: No matter how...

J B Priestley: No matter how...

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and...

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J B Priestley: Most writers enjoy...

J B Priestley: Most writers enjoy...

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has...

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J B Priestley: In a matriarchy...

J B Priestley: In a matriarchy...

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and...

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J B Priestley: The greater part...

J B Priestley: The greater part...

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to...

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