Cyril Connolly Quotes

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly

Marriage, Health, Character

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly

Person, Lazy, Friends

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly

Nice, Writing, Younger

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly

Yourself, Self, Write

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril Connolly

Love, Once, Loving

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly

Wisdom, Pain, Strong

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly

Others, Charming, Total

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly

Happy, Passion, Illusion

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

Life, Success, Calm

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly

Love, Fear, Greed

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly

Art, May, Through

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly

Young, Faithful, Older

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Cyril Connolly

Talent, Touch, Golden

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

Nature, Book, Person

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly

True, Writer, Task

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

Faith, Lost, Thought

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly

May, Apathy, Crime

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Cyril Connolly

Book, Learn, Worth

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

Wisdom, Ignorance, Passion

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
Cyril Connolly

Life, Forgiven, Likely

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly

Food, Worst, Worship

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Cyril Connolly

Great, Live, May

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly

Life, Fear, Become

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Cyril Connolly

Small, Few, Number

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

Family, Nature, Romantic

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: September 10, 1903

Died: November 26, 1974

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