Quote

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Cyril Connolly

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Firsts
Beholds
Well
Turning
First
Miserable
Time
Lose
Loses
Lasts
Last
Wells
Orpheus

More quotes by Cyril Connolly

Image
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Cyril Connolly
Image
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly
Image
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
Image
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
Cyril Connolly
Image
Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
Cyril Connolly
Image
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
Cyril Connolly
Image
A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
Cyril Connolly
Image
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
Image
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Cyril Connolly
Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
Cyril Connolly
Image
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
Cyril Connolly
Image
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
Cyril Connolly
Image
There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
Cyril Connolly
Image
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril Connolly
Image
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly
Image
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly
Image
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly
Image
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
Cyril Connolly
Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Cyril Connolly
Image
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
Cyril Connolly