92 Quotes by J. B. Priestley

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

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

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

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

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.