#or

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#down #drink #i #i see #much

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#california #car #dream #i #job

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

#a new day #always #been #behind #bit

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 #before #changes #day #disillusioned

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

— J. B. Priestley

#comedy #itself #may #protecting #say

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

— J. B. Priestley

#advice #be yourself #give #people #some

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

#being #bombed #britain #burned #democracy

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

— J. B. Priestley

#i #i think #know #lousy #only

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#britain #circumstances #done #early #now