J. B. Priestley Quotes

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.