Cyril Connolly Quotes

Cyril Connolly
English Journalist
Born: Sep 10, 1903
Died: Nov 26, 1974
Art Fear Life Man Only Will
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly
Yourself Better Write Self Than Public
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Cyril Connolly
Class Crime Slums Delirium Well May Middle Middle Class Suburbs Apathy Breeding Grounds
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 Wave Harmony Secret Always Existence Up Shore The Secret Of Little Success Is Us Farther Wash Each
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. Cyril Connolly
Man Noise Hate Fear Fears Before Hates Something Noises Becomes Child Who Consequence
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. Cyril Connolly
Nature Book Country Only Know Person Get
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
Love Animal Thinking Others Ourselves Misery Clear Condemned Begin Human Human Animal Either To Love Then
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. Cyril Connolly
Past Sweet Only Smells Dead Thing
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Cyril Connolly
Wisdom Ignorance Darkness Passion Folly Purity Infatuation Avarice
Youth is a period of missed opportunities. Cyril Connolly
Youth Opportunities Missed Period
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
Work Good Mistake Good Work Matters Doing Expect
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
People Few Out Some Only Small Civilization Maintained Altogether Prisons Very Blot Few People Places Bombs Number Need

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