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 More Quotes by J. B. Priestley More Quotes From J. B. Priestley We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night. J. B. Priestley good-night fire men To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. J. B. Priestley delight happiness children The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. J. B. Priestley communication talking mean I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestley good-morning motivational life The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please. J. B. Priestley skills civilization science A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. J. B. Priestley holiday time travel We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. J. B. Priestley members responsible body If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. J. B. Priestley despair degrees needs To put failure behind you, face up to it. J. B. Priestley behind-you behinds faces To multiply your joy, count your blessings. J. B. Priestley count-your-blessings blessing joy 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. J. B. Priestley age perfect birthday We cannot get grace from gadgets. J. B. Priestley gadgets grace One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not. J. B. Priestley party missing years To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace. J. B. Priestley forgive-and-forget forgiving remember Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. J. B. Priestley hymns war years 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. J. B. Priestley fool energy men We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. J. B. Priestley coffee eye food 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? J. B. Priestley childhood snow fall Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. J. B. Priestley instruments writing ideas 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. J. B. Priestley soccer men two
