Cyril Connolly Quotes

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid alw...

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those tha...

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", Fe...

In the sex-war thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male vindictiveness of the female. Both are reci...

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But wha...

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the chan...

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

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

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer m...

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrat...

All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped a...

A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselve...

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener ...

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear ...

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, wher...

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

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

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear o...

Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the be...

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becom...

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

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped ...

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

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

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put th...

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life...

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da...

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of ...

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we wan...

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution o...

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

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

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point o...

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - "...

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