Best Quotes by J. B. Priestley (Top 5)

  1. 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.
  2. 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, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
  3. Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
  4. 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.
  5. Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.