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.

Quote by J B Priestley

Topics: Drink Quotes

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and...

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and...

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour...

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour...

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep...

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep...

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

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

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

Western man is schizophrenic.

Western man is schizophrenic.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try,...

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try,...

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event....

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event....

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues...

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues...

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then...

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then...

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more...

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more...

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

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

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

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to...

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to...

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

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

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then...

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then...

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the...

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the...