It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
V. S. PritchettIt is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
V. S. PritchettI felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.
V. S. PritchettAmong the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.
V. S. Pritchett