J B Priestley quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

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