92 Quotes by J. B. Priestley

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

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

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.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

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.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

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.

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?