J. B. Priestley Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.”

“Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.”

“Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.”

“Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.”

“There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.”

“In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.”

“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.”

“A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.”

“Western man is schizophrenic.”

“Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.”