V. S. Pritchett Quotes

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Quotes by V. S. Pritchett