J. B. Priestley Quotes - Page 4

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• In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

  J. B. Priestley

  Husband, Block, Men

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• A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

  J. B. Priestley

  Husband, Women, Wife

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• A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.

  J. B. Priestley

  Magic, Mind, Cold

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• On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. … I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame… I was utterly at a loss how to account for it.

  J. B. Priestley

  Mean, Loss, Air

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• If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.

  J. B. Priestley

  Believe, Men, Museums

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• I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

  J. B. Priestley

  People, Fancy, Hierarchy

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• What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

  J. B. Priestley

  Norwich, Old Places, Sensible

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• Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

  J. B. Priestley

  Technology, Thinking, Machines

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  J. B. Priestley

  Marriage, Clothes, Endless

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