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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
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Coventry
England
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Cyril Vernon Connolly
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More quotes by Cyril Connolly
No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
Cyril Connolly
We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
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
Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
Cyril Connolly
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Cyril Connolly
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
Cyril Connolly
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
Cyril Connolly
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
Cyril Connolly
Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril Connolly
No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
Cyril Connolly
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit we must sleep and therefore we must dream.
Cyril Connolly
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
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 only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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
