To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J B Priestley quote The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
J B Priestley quote 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 quote Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J B Priestley quote Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J B Priestley quote Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J B Priestley quote Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
J B Priestley quote Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J B Priestley quote Biography
1894-1984, dramatist