Connolly's 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. — Cyril Connolly

It's like zen. Only not as subtle. — J.J. Connolly

Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it's just cheap. — Jim Connolly

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. — Cyril Connolly

When you're eating something and someone asks 'Is that nice?' No it's really revolting - I always eat stuff I hate. — Billy Connolly

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. — Billy Connolly

They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer. — John Connolly

People die all the time. It's just that you're not around. — Billy Connolly

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded. — Billy Connolly

There's always someplace to go, even if it's only someplace else. — John Connolly

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave. — Cyril Connolly

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way. — Kevin Connolly

It was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name, as long as your name was 'Motherfucker'. — John Connolly

It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation. — Kevin Connolly

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

The thing that everyone liked about 'Entourage' is that these are fish-out-of-water guys living this dream. — Kevin Connolly

All presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise. — John Connolly

San Anita is a beautiful track. It's not too far from my house in L.A., and it's a beautiful place to go and watch the horses run. — Kevin Connolly

She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside — John Connolly

I'm not in the business of facilitating the creation of martyrs. That's — John Connolly

Where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them. — John Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home. — Billy Connolly

Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh. — Billy Connolly

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions. — Cyril Connolly

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. — Cyril Connolly

I'm a rah, rah guy's guy. I like to talk about sports and put people in headlocks. — Kevin Connolly

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! — Billy Connolly

Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making people look good. It's really creating the character. — Kristen Connolly

one ignored the mundane at one's peril. After — John Connolly

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature. — John Connolly

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me. — Billy Connolly

What's seldom is wonderful. — John Connolly

Because a man who is everybody's friend really has no friends at all. — John Connolly

A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said "her brothers got a moustache!" — Billy Connolly

I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life's way of telling you that you're not paying enough attention. — John Connolly

Mum," said Christopher. "It's a demon. I don't think a poker will hurt it."

"It will where I'm going to put it," said Mrs. Mayer. — John Connolly

I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow. — Billy Connolly

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it? — Billy Connolly

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten. — Billy Connolly

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. — Cyril Connolly

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

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part. — John Connolly

I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline. — Billy Connolly

Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question. — Billy Connolly

There was a lot to be said for a man's capacity to be comfortable while alone. — John Connolly

People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that's an image I really didn't need. — Billy Connolly

Stories always seem to get better with age. — Kevin Connolly

It's amazing what we remember as sports fans, right? — Kevin Connolly

It's odd, but people are capable of forgetting quite extraordinary occurrences very quickly if it makes them happier to do so, — John Connolly

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'. — Billy Connolly

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. — Billy Connolly

Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one's view of them. — John Connolly

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it. — John Connolly

He had found it hard to equate the priest's God with the one who had left his mother to die slowly and painfully. — John Connolly

The look Evelyn gave to Marley was remarkably similar to her cat's: the casual disinterest of a predator with a full belly. — Harry Connolly

I've been acting for 30 years. It's a grind. — Kevin Connolly

That's the one. In Puck Connolly's custody. That might be the last I see of that jacket. — Maggie Stiefvater

It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like. — Billy Connolly

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here — Billy Connolly

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. — Cyril Connolly

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. — John Connolly

Now that it's time to leave, I'm not sure I wan to go. — John Connolly

To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible. — Maureen Connolly

I don't aim to offend. — Billy Connolly

I'm a nostalgic guy. — Kevin Connolly

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree. — John Connolly

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly

Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn't too nice a thing to do. — Billy Connolly

Lester Bargus was what people liked to call 'two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag. — John Connolly

If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one. — Billy Connolly

Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else" — Billy Connolly

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. — Cyril Connolly

He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths. — John Connolly

Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. — Cyril Connolly

Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all. — John Connolly

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

Okay, I said hoarsely as the blood left my head and headed south for the winter. — John Connolly

Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways. — Billy Connolly

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying. — Billy Connolly

If you're getting fucked, then you're getting fucked. But if you're getting fucked by someone who's smiling, then you're really getting fucked. — John Connolly

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist. — John Connolly

I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America ... People shout: "Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy.". — Billy Connolly

He has his father's distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental. — John Connolly

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days. — Billy Connolly

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over! — Billy Connolly

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. — Kristen Connolly

The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time. — John Connolly

M is for Marx
And clashing of classes
And movement of masses
And massing of asses. — Cyril Connolly

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland — James Connolly

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

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a haemorrhoid when it's on the outside of your ass? — Billy Connolly

That's the thing - I've never really been single. I always end up in a relationship immediately. — Kevin Connolly

It's a full-time job being homeless. It's a full-time job being poor. — John Connolly

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. — Billy Connolly

I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick."
"It's late for that, Puck. — Maggie Stiefvater

Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them. — John Connolly

I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many. — John Connolly

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is. — Billy Connolly

If you listen hard enough, there's almost no such thing as silence: there's just noise that isn't very loud yet. — John Connolly