List of J. B. Priestley Quotes

To Make The Most Of Christmas, Focus On Christ.

Marriage Is Like Paying An Endless Visit In Your Worst Clothes.

Sometimes You Might Think The Machines We Worship Make All The Chief Appointments, Promoting The Human Beings Who Seem Closest To Them.

What A Grand, Higgledy-piggledy, Sensible Old Place Norwich Is!

I Fancy That The Hell Of Too Many People Would Occupy A Respectable Place In The Hierarchy Of Infernal Regions.

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.

A Novelist Who Writes Nothing For 10 Years Finds His Reputation Rising. Because I Keep On Producing Books They Say There Must Be Something Wrong With This Fellow.

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.

A Loving Wife Will Do Anything For Her Husband Except Stop Criticizing Him And Trying To Improve Him.

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.

It Is Hard To Tell Where The Mcc Ends And The Church Of England Begins.

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.