Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
V. S. PritchettHow extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PritchettWell, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett