75 Quotations by Cyril Connolly
- 61. Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin ...

- 62. Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

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

- 64. Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the i ...

- 65. Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.

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

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

- 68. We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want ...

- 69. Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Perma ...

- 70. What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

- 71. When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage can, I carry through ...

- 72. When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. ...

- 73. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

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

- 75. Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

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