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Category: 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.

Day, Waiting, Start

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own – this is happiness.

Child, You, Find

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Youth, Pay, Old

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.

Life, Day, Changes

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

Communicate, More, Elaborate

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.

Democracy, Losing, Years

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.

Smile, Society, Comedy

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.

Age, I Am, Youth

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.

Life, Important, Know

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.

writers, writing

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

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

humor, lying, middle-age, vanity