V. S. Pritchett Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Dog, Attitude, Character

• A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Giving, Storytelling, Tales

  1946 The Living Novel,'An Irish Ghost'.

• On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Order, Giving, Use

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 29), 1980.

• 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. Pritchett

  School, Eye, Games

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 95), 1980.

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