Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
Critic
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Always
Younger
Ones
Nice
Age
Inspirational
Writing
More quotes by Cyril Connolly
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Cyril Connolly
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
Cyril Connolly
We fear something before we hate.
Cyril Connolly
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Cyril Connolly
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
Cyril Connolly
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
Cyril Connolly
Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems
Cyril Connolly
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
Cyril Connolly
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
Cyril Connolly
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
Cyril Connolly
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
Cyril Connolly
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril Connolly
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities it is all they have to insure their places in the world.
Cyril Connolly
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Cyril Connolly
