If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.
J B Priestley quote 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 quote 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 quote Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J B Priestley quote 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 quote 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 do in half a dozen lifetimes.
J B Priestley quote We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J B Priestley quote To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J B Priestley quote Biography
1894-1984, dramatist
