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List of J. B. Priestley Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 84 inspiring quotes by J. B. Priestley.

About J. B. Priestley

  • Born: September 13, 1894
  • Died: August 14, 1984
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • To make the most of christmas, focus on christ.
    Focus Christ
    Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
    Marriage Clothes Endless
    Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
    Technology Thinking Machines
    What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place norwich is!
    Norwich Old Places Sensible
    I fancy that the hell of too many people would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
    People Fancy Hierarchy
    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.
    Believe Men Museums
    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.
    Book Writing Years
    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.
    Understanding One Day Demand
    A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
    Husband Women Wife
    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.
    Magic Mind Cold
    It is hard to tell where the mcc ends and the church of england begins.
    Church England Ends
    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.
    Men Differences Together
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