Top 70 J.B. Priestley Quotes (2024 Update)
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J.B. Priestley Quote: “To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own – this is happiness.”

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

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you’re going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you’re going all out.”

52. “A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you’re going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you’re going all out.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.”

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

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.”

55. “In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.”

56. “The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.”

57. “Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.”

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

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “Western man is schizophrenic.”

60. “Western man is schizophrenic.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.”

61. “In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.”

62. “The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.”

63. “In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.”

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

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “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.”

65. “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.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “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.”

66. “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.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it’s to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.”

67. “If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it’s to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “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?”

68. “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?”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “A lot of men who have accepted – or had imposed upon them in boyhood – the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.”

69. “A lot of men who have accepted – or had imposed upon them in boyhood – the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.”

70. “Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.”

71. “Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.”

72. “Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “When we are older we are able to live in – and make the best of – one continuing world, but when we are young we feel sometimes that in an unknown and sinister fashion the whole cosmos has been changed, one age ended and another begun when we were not noticing what was happening.”

73. “When we are older we are able to live in – and make the best of – one continuing world, but when we are young we feel sometimes that in an unknown and sinister fashion the whole cosmos has been changed, one age ended and another begun when we were not noticing what was happening.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “I was surrounded, and often enchanted, it appeared, by nothings.”

74. “I was surrounded, and often enchanted, it appeared, by nothings.”

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J.B. Priestley Quote: “But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of their being? We do not know. All we do know for certain is that no such clock, no such warnings, can come out of the passing time that we are told is all we have. They belong to a larger idea of Time, like all these dreams that came true.”

75. “But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of their being? We do not know. All we do know for certain is that no such clock, no such warnings, can come out of the passing time that we are told is all we have. They belong to a larger idea of Time, like all these dreams that came true.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “I don’t dislike life the way you seem to do. But then you may be a fish out of water. I’m not. I’m where I want to be, doing what I want to do. But even so, there’s nothing wonderful about it. Most of the time it’s like – let’s say – living with a lion. One day you can make it jump through hoops, or even ride on its back. But get careless, make a wrong move, and it’ll have you in a corner and be tearing an arm off.”

76. “I don’t dislike life the way you seem to do. But then you may be a fish out of water. I’m not. I’m where I want to be, doing what I want to do. But even so, there’s nothing wonderful about it. Most of the time it’s like – let’s say – living with a lion. One day you can make it jump through hoops, or even ride on its back. But get careless, make a wrong move, and it’ll have you in a corner and be tearing an arm off.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “Although it was over 50 years ago, I have not forgotten the moment when, after exploring the maze of Indian metaphysics, I reached its central Thought. I read that if we go deeper and deeper into the self we can arrive at last at the recognition of Atman, the essential self; and that if we go deeper into the not-self, the world that seems so solid and real, pulling aside veil after veil of illusion, we shall find Brahman, the ultimate reality; and that Atman and Brahman are identical.”

77. “Although it was over 50 years ago, I have not forgotten the moment when, after exploring the maze of Indian metaphysics, I reached its central Thought. I read that if we go deeper and deeper into the self we can arrive at last at the recognition of Atman, the essential self; and that if we go deeper into the not-self, the world that seems so solid and real, pulling aside veil after veil of illusion, we shall find Brahman, the ultimate reality; and that Atman and Brahman are identical.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “Time must be tracked down in the inner world... It is one of the peculiarities of Time that it is intensely private and yet also widely shared.”

78. “Time must be tracked down in the inner world... It is one of the peculiarities of Time that it is intensely private and yet also widely shared.”

— J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley Quote: “The happiest types I’ve ever known ran puppet shows – turning puppets into people. It works much better than turning people into puppets.”

79. “The happiest types I’ve ever known ran puppet shows – turning puppets into people. It works much better than turning people into puppets.”

— J.B. Priestley

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