J. B. Priestley

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then…

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate…

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour…

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I…

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues…

The greatest writers of this age… are aware of the mystery of our existence…

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am…

We pay when old for the excesses of youth…

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread…

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes…

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile…

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try…

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more…

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to…