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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
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
— 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
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
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
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
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
— Cyril Connolly
No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
— Cyril Connolly
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He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
— 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
There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
— Cyril Connolly
In the person of Christ a man has not become God; God has become man.
— Cyril Of Jerusalem
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
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