75 Quotations by Cyril Connolly
- 21. In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
- 22. It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates; for it is not what they do that matters, but w ...
- 23. It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
- 24. Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk.
- 25. Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
- 26. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped ...
- 27. Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like ...
- 28. No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
- 29. No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we ...
- 30. No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
- 31. Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
- 32. Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
- 33. Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
- 34. Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not ...
- 35. Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and d ...
- 36. The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
- 37. The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da ...
- 38. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- 39. The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likel ...
- 40. The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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