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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. - J. Priestley Quotes

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 And Aging British Writer Youth

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

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

British Writer Comedy

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. - J. Priestley Quotes

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.

Men

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them. - J. Priestley Quotes

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

Past

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God. - J. Priestley Quotes

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

They will review a book by a writer much older than themselves as if it were an over-ambitious essay by a second-year student . . . It is the little dons I complain about, like so many corgis trotting up, hoping to nip your ankles. - J. Priestley Quotes

They will review a book by a writer much older than themselves as if it were an over-ambitious essay by a second-year student . . . It is the little dons I complain about, like so many corgis trotting up, hoping to nip your ankles.

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

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

British Writer Happiness Parents And Parenting

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... - J. Priestley Quotes

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...

British Writer Future

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it. - J. Priestley Quotes

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it? - J. Priestley Quotes

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

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