77 Quotes by j.b. priestley

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

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?

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

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

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.