J. B. Priestley

Quotes

• “I sometimes wish they would swagger more now buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats and retain those traces of make-up t...”
• “The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours sha...”
• “Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is n...”
• “The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable indulgent affe...”
• “Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but...”
• “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic wait...”
• “Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something in him before he can...”
• “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 ...”
• “One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!”
• “The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
• “We pay when old for the excesses of youth.”