J. B. Priestley Quotes

Western man is schizophrenic. - J. B. Priestley

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. - J. B. Priestley

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them. - J. B. Priestley

They will review a book by a writer much older than themselves as if it were an over-ambitious essay by a second-year student . . . It is the little dons I complain about, like so many corgis trotting up, hoping to nip your ankles. - J. B. Priestley

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. - J. B. Priestley

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. - J. B. Priestley

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. - J. B. Priestley

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. - J. B. Priestley

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

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