The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Committees
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Books
Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Life and Living
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Happiness
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Youth
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Nationalism, Nationality, Nation, Canada, Nationalities
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Family
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
—V. S. Pritchett
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