Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly — J. B. Priestley
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. — J. B. Priestley
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that — J. B. Priestley
God can stand being told by professor ayer and marghanita laski that he doesn’t exist. — J. B. Priestley
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. — J. B. Priestley
Something in me resists the calendar expectation of happiness. Merry christmas yourself! — J. B. Priestley
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world — J. B. Priestley
To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own — J. B. Priestley
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures — J. B. Priestley
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor … — J. B. Priestley
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development — J. B. Priestley
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit. — J. B. Priestley
We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison. — J. B. Priestley
The way to write a book is the application of the seat of one’s pants to the seat of one’s chair. — J. B. Priestley
It is the little dons I complain about, like so many corgis trotting up, hoping to nip your ankles. — J. B. Priestley
It wouldn’t have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it? — J. B. Priestley
Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . — 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 — J. B. Priestley