J. B. Priestley Quotes

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

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  Happiness, Children, Delight

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• We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

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  Good Night, Men, Fire

  J. B. Priestley (1992). “An Inspector Calls”, p.56, Heinemann

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• 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.

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  Life, Motivational, Good Morning

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

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  Communication, Mean, Talking

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• The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

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  Science, Civilization, Skills

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• A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

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  Time, Travel, Holiday

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• To put failure behind you, face up to it.

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  Faces, Behind You, Behinds

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

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  Despair, Degrees, Needs

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• We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

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  Body, Responsible, Members

  J. B. Priestley (1992). “An Inspector Calls”, p.56, Heinemann

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• To multiply your joy, count your blessings.

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  Blessing, Joy, Count Your Blessings

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• 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.

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  Birthday, Perfect, Age

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• One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.

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  Party, Years, Missing

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• We cannot get grace from gadgets.

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  Grace, Gadgets

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• To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

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  Forgive And Forget, Forgiving, Remember

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• 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.

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  War, Years, Hymns

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• We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

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  Coffee, Food, Eye

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• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a 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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  Fall, Snow, Childhood

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• Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

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  Writing, Ideas, Instruments

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• To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

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  Soccer, Men, Two

  Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

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  School, Men, Style

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• But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.

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  Dream, Real, Self

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• It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

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  Real, Fiction, Facts

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• We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

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  Apples, Tree, Complaining

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• Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

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  Dream, Destiny, Men

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• Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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  War, Teenager, Politician

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