V. S. Pritchett Quotes


"Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere."
- V. S. Pritchett
(Related: Life, Habit)

"The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive."
- V. S. Pritchett
(Related: American, Spirit)

"The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony."
- V. S. Pritchett
(Related: Happiness)

"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."
- V. S. Pritchett
(Related: Time, Youth)

"In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth."
- V. S. Pritchett
(Related: Family, Myth)