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Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence. — Cyril Connolly

Art is made by the alone for the alone ... The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication ... — Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. — Cyril Connolly

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

Simple stories ... emerge as lovely films or television pieces. — Cyril Cusack

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life. — Cyril Connolly

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. — Cyril Connolly

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

Sheep with a nasty side. — Cyril Connolly

Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill. — Cyril Of Jerusalem

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly

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

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

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. — Cyril Connolly

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

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. — Cyril Connolly

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? — Cyril 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 conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archaeology. — Cyril Bailey

A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em,
To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. — Cyril Tourneur

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity. — Cyril Cusack

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead. — Cyril Falls

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. — Cyril Connolly

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly

It is closing time in the gardens of the West. — Cyril Connolly

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task. — Cyril Cusack

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

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good. — Cyril Tourneur

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover. — Cyril Connolly

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days. — Cyril Cusack

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string? — Cyril Connolly

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going. — Cyril Clarke

Scientists are human - they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. — Cyril Ponnamperuma

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. — Cyril Connolly

If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink — Cyril Of Alexandria

Surely we are all mad people, and they
Whom we think are, are not; — Cyril Tourneur

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

Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb? — Cyril Connolly

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable. — Cyril Connolly

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. — Cyril Connolly

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. — Cyril Connolly

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. — Cyril Connolly

We fear something before we hate it ... — Cyril Connolly

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. — Cyril Connolly

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. — Cyril Falls

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion. — Cyril Connolly

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

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. — Cyril Connolly

Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to. — Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. — Cyril Connolly

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. — Cyril Connolly

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins. — Cyril Of Alexandria

By being silent he can do more than those who chatter. For he is in tune with the commandments as a harp is with its strings. — Cyril Charles Richardson

I was rather a fat little boy. — Cyril Cusack

Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then," said Will. "I'll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery. — Cassandra Clare

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. — Cyril Connolly

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. — Cyril Connolly

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. — Cyril Cusack

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

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing. — Cyril Cusack

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel. — Cyril Connolly

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly

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

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. — Cyril Connolly

I am a nationalist ... my native soil is the theatre. — Cyril Cusack

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world. — Cyril Cusack

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible. — Cyril Connolly

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. — Cyril Connolly

In the person of Christ a man has not become God; God has become man. — Cyril Of Jerusalem

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt

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

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

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

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. — Cyril Cusack

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

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

I shine in tears like the sun in April. — Cyril Tourneur

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. — Cyril Connolly

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

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest. — Cyril Connolly

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy. — Cyril Connolly

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility. — Cyril Connolly

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer. — Cyril Connolly

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

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. — Cyril Connolly

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. — Cyril Connolly

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body. — Cyril Connolly

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. — Cyril Connolly

The artist secretes nostalgia around life. — Cyril Connolly

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. — Cyril Connolly

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. — Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. — Cyril Connolly

Indeed the mystery of Christ runs the risk of being disbelieved precisely because it is so incredibly wonderful — Cyril Of Alexandria

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. — Cyril Connolly

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself. — Cyril Tourneur

As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ. — Cyril Of Alexandria