25 ordspråk av J. B. Priestley

GB  J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley föddes den September 13th 1894 och dog den 14 August 1984
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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.

 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.

 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.

 Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

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

 Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

 God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn't exist.

 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...

 I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

 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?

 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.

 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.

 One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

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

 Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.


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