Quote by J.B. Priestley
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusione

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. – J.B. Priestley

Other quotes by J.B. Priestley

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

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Tea
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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Weather
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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – J.B. Priestley

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Prosperity
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Other Quotes from
Advertising
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. – George Orwell

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Advertising

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. – David Ogilvy

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Advertising

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal – John Berger

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Advertising

As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. – George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twe

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Advertising

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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art Ive been pursuing all my life. – Paul Cezanne

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So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free. – Jason Love

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Advertising

Ive never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, theres just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have. – Stephen Fry

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Beauty

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. – Jonathan Kozol

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Education