J. B. Priestley Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

  J. B. Priestley

  Reading, Important, Half

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• It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

  J. B. Priestley

  Church, England, Ends

  1962 In the New Statesman, 20 Jul.

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• In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

  J. B. Priestley

  Understanding, One Day, Demand

  "The English". Book by J. B. Priestley, 1973.

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• A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

  J. B. Priestley

  Book, Writing, Years

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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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