1900-, British Author, Critic
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. Pritchett – [Family]
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. Pritchett – [Life and Living]
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. Pritchett – [Nationalities and Nationalism]
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. Pritchett – [Books: Bestsellers]
The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V. S. Pritchett – [Committees and Meetings]
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett – [Youth]