The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.
V. S. PritchettIt's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
V. S. PritchettThe peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
V. S. Pritchett