J. B. Priestley

“A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.”

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different.”

“We cannot go on blaming Gewalt for every damn thing that happens. We are not children.”

“I can't help feeling that there is a connection between the decay of our language and the decay of our social life.”

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.”

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

“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.”

“Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of noise; in the articulate stage, it is known as criticism.”

“To be young is to be personally extravagant.”

“If we are all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?”

“We are what we are, and we're going to be what we're going to be.”

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

“It is, I think, a good deal better to be whole than to be good.”

“The true business of the philosopher is to collect memories.”

“The great mystery of our time is the disappearance of the soul.”