Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
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. PritchettThe 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. PritchettThe peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
V. S. Pritchett