75 Quotations by Cyril Connolly
- 1. A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer m ...

- 2. A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-han ...

- 3. A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi ...

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

- 5. Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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

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

- 8. Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Ne ...

- 9. Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bo ...

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

- 11. Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

- 12. Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desir ...

- 13. Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

- 14. Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

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

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

- 17. I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight t ...

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

- 19. Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.

- 20. In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. ...

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