Quotes by J. B. Priestley

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

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

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.

Accidents, try to change them - its impossible. The accidental reveals man.