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. B. Priestley Age
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. -J. B. Priestley Hope
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. B. Priestley Respect
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. B. Priestley Morning
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. -J. B. Priestley Age
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. -J. B. Priestley War
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. -J. B. Priestley Happiness
