Author: Cyril Connolly

Quotes

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

- Cyril Connolly

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

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

- Cyril Connolly

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

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

- Cyril Connolly

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

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

- Cyril Connolly

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

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

- Cyril Connolly

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

- Cyril Connolly

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

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

- Cyril Connolly

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

- Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

- Cyril Connolly

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