92 Quotes by J. B. Priestley

To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

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?

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 settle down to do nothing.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.