Quotes by V. Pritchett

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
• Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
• The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.