“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
J. B. Priestley“Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.”
J. B. Priestley“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“To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.”
J. B. Priestley“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“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
J. B. Priestley“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“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.”
J. B. Priestley“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“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