Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. J. B. Priestley More Quotes by J. B. Priestley More Quotes From J. B. Priestley Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. J. B. Priestley revenge yellow rivers 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 stills writing beautiful 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. J. B. Priestley respect youth age I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces. J. B. Priestley calling faces feelings 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 done play people 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. J. B. Priestley fire sound order To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another. J. B. Priestley one-thing teach Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. J. B. Priestley equality change men One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. J. B. Priestley delight youth age Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. J. B. Priestley public-opinion garden children 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 bullying fashion prayer Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. J. B. Priestley ifs would-be writing We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison. J. B. Priestley prison revenge animal Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J. B. Priestley writing might pregnancy 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 differences politics world She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. J. B. Priestley 50th-birthday beauty years There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be. J. B. Priestley lonely typewriters science 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. J. B. Priestley risk inspirational men Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. J. B. Priestley imagination letting-go children 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 demand one-day understanding
