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Cyril Connolly quotes: Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence. Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly quotes: How many books did Renoir write on how to paint? How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
Cyril Connolly quotes: Art is made by the alone for the alone ... The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication ... Art is made by the alone for the alone ... The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication ...
Cyril Connolly quotes: Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Promise is the capacity for letting people down. Promise is the capacity for letting people down.
Cyril Connolly quotes: It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator. It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life. Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
Cyril Connolly quotes: When in doubt, choose greatness. When in doubt, choose greatness.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Cyril Connolly quotes: While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Sheep with a nasty side. Sheep with a nasty side.
Cyril Connolly quotes: We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave. The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius. Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back. The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.
Cyril Connolly quotes: There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God. There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
Cyril Connolly quotes: There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time. Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
Cyril Connolly quotes: As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly quotes: In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe. The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
Cyril Connolly quotes: For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly quotes: If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it. Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
Cyril Connolly quotes: No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian. No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly quotes: We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises. We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb? Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb?
Cyril Connolly quotes: We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable. Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
Cyril Connolly quotes: An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last. Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them. Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited. The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
Cyril Connolly quotes: In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Cyril Connolly quotes: A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so. Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
Cyril Connolly quotes: It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly quotes: It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
Cyril Connolly quotes: A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions. A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to. Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly quotes: In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable. In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have. The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
Cyril Connolly quotes: There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body. Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Cyril Connolly quotes: All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God. The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
Cyril Connolly quotes: It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy. It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
Cyril Connolly quotes: He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
Cyril Connolly quotes: There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible. There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
Cyril Connolly quotes: That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
Cyril Connolly quotes: It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
Cyril Connolly quotes: We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Cyril Connolly quotes: M is for MarxAnd clashing of classesAnd movement of massesAnd massing of asses. M is for Marx
And clashing of classes
And movement of masses
And massing of asses.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Cyril Connolly quotes: What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
Cyril Connolly quotes: Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly quotes: We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion. We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.
Cyril Connolly quotes: No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning. The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.
Cyril Connolly quotes: A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
Cyril Connolly quotes: It is closing time in the gardens of the West. It is closing time in the gardens of the West.
Cyril Connolly quotes: No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly quotes: The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Cyril Connolly quotes: When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
Cyril Connolly quotes: There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover. There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
Cyril Connolly quotes: When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933] Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]
Cyril Connolly quotes: The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest. The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy. Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
Cyril Connolly quotes: Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer. Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

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