Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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
Good
Sombre
Somber
Hall
Halls
Atheism
Enemy
Literature
Pram
Art
Prams
More quotes by Cyril Connolly
There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
Cyril Connolly
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
Cyril Connolly
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
Cyril Connolly
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
Cyril Connolly
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
Cyril Connolly
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Cyril Connolly
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Cyril Connolly
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
Cyril Connolly
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.
Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
Cyril Connolly
Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly
When in doubt, choose greatness.
Cyril Connolly
If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.
Cyril Connolly
The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.
Cyril Connolly
How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?
Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
Cyril Connolly
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
