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Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
— Cyril Connolly
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
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
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
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
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
— 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
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
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
— 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
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
— Cyril Connolly
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.
— Cyril Connolly
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
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
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
— Cyril Connolly
We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.
— Cyril Connolly
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
— 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
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.
— Cyril Connolly
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
— 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
Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
— Cyril Connolly
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
— Cyril Connolly
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
Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
— Cyril Connolly
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
— Cyril Connolly
Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
— Cyril 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
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
— Cyril Connolly
In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.
— Cyril Connolly
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
— Cyril Connolly
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
— Cyril Connolly
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
— Cyril Connolly
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
— Cyril Connolly
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
— Cyril Connolly
The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
— Cyril Connolly
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
— Cyril Connolly
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
— 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 artist secretes nostalgia around life.
— Cyril Connolly
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
— Cyril Connolly
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
— Cyril Connolly
Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.
— Cyril Connolly
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
— Cyril Connolly
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
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
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
— 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
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He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
— Cyril Connolly
There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
— Cyril Connolly
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
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
— Cyril Connolly
It is closing time in the gardens of the West.
— Cyril Connolly
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
— Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
— Cyril Connolly
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
— Cyril 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
There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
— Cyril Connolly
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
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
— Cyril Connolly
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
— 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
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
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
— Cyril Connolly