Chris Priestley Quotes

“From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.”
― Chris Priestley, Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

“I am not a thief. I take only what I need,” he growled.
“Don’t we all, Swiss.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“There are fewer things sadder than a poorly attended funeral.”
― Chris Priestley, The Dead of Winter

“I learned of the cruelty of man to his fellow man, and it did not come as any great surprise.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“I felt worse now, for having known love and losing it, than I ever did in those hours of lonely despair.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“Ideas come from all over the place – a lifetime of reading and watching films and TV helps of course. I play around with thoughts of what creeps me out and hope that it will creep my reader out too.”
― Chris Priestley

“If ghosts exist, why are there not more? We should be tripping over them. If you can trip over a ghost.”
― Chris Priestley

“What was the point of all that education if at the end of it you came out speaking such drivel?”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“it was pleasing to see the mighty laid low, even if they were from another country and another time.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“What must it be like? Billy thought. What must it be like to be happy?”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher