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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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