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J. B. Priestley Quotes
«Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.»
Author: J. B. Priestley
«One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.»
Author: 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.»
Author: 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.»
Author: J. B. Priestley
«To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.»
Author: J. B. Priestley
«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...»
Author: J. B. Priestley
«If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.»
Author: 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?»
Author: J. B. Priestley
«Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.»
Author: J. B. Priestley
«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.»
Author: J. B. Priestley
