77 Quotes by j.b. priestley

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.

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

If you are a genius, you’ll make your own rules, but if not – and the odds are against it – go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper – write.

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

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

Western man is schizophrenic.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

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.