B. Priestley
B. Priestley
husband block men
In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.
prayer people memorial
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
marriage clothes endless
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
warfare nuclear bombs
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.
understanding one-day demand
In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.
philosophy character civilization
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
inspirational men risk
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.
clever too-much young-writers
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
letting-go children imagination
Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
church england ends
It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
men schizophrenic western
Western man is schizophrenic.
husband women wife
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
soccer football player
Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
men differences together
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.