J. B. Priestley

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

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

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

J. B. Priestley

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

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

J. B. Priestley

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

J. B. Priestley

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

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