V.S. Pritchett: Likeness

V.S. Pritchett was British writer and critic. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

V.S. Pritchett: 46 quotes 0 likes

“In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it — but men were different. A man like B — like Alfie, too — never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.”

V.S. Pritchett

"The Worshippers", p. 87
On the Edge of the Cliff: Short Stories (1979)

Love , Life , Men , Way

“Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.”

V.S. Pritchett

"Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 25
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)

Sadness , Art

“Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.”

V.S. Pritchett

"Evelyn Waugh: Club and Country", p. 101
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)

Thinking , Sense

“The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.”

V.S. Pritchett

Source: London Perceived (1962), Ch. 1, p. 14

Love