J. B. Priestley Quotes

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

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. - J. B. Priestley

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

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God. - J. B. Priestley

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it? - J. B. Priestley

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. - J. B. Priestley

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. - J. B. Priestley

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man. - J. B. Priestley

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