J. B. Priestley Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”

“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.”

“Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.”