J. B. Priestley Quotes

J. B. Priestley — British Writer born on September 13, 1894, died on August 14, 1984

John Boynton Priestley, OM, was an English author, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator, man of letters and broadcaster, whose career straddled the 20th Century... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.