Quotes by John Boynton Priestley
“But some of us are beginning to pull
well away, in our irritation, from ... the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs,
the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere
between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where
we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.”
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
“As we read the school reports on our
children, we realize a sense of relief, that can rise to delight, that, thank
Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.”
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
“To show a child what has once
delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, so that there is
now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.”
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
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.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
The first fall of snow
is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world
and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then
where is it to be found?
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
A good holiday is one
spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
If there is one thing
left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I
could do it, you know. I could still do it.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there
is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply
too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the
Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
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.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
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.
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven
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John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984)
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