75 Quotations by Cyril Connolly
- 41. The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The trage ...
- 42. The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point o ...
- 43. The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point o ...
- 44. The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury ...
- 45. The hunt for young authors who, while maintaining a prestige value (with a rôle for Ingrid Bergman), ...
- 46. The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a ma ...
- 47. The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
- 48. The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their materia ...
- 49. The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
- 50. The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
- 51. The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unabl ...
- 52. The secret of happiness is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always ...
- 53. The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life ...
- 54. The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
- 55. The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
- 56. The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
- 57. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
- 58. There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God, h ...
- 59. There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old f ...
- 60. There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clea ...
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