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
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Cyril Connolly
You Writing Will Be Nice Nice Those About Because Always Than Younger Who
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. Cyril Connolly
Nature Water Our Like Truest Repose
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
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Cyril Connolly
Love Fear Greed Kind Like Comfort
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. Cyril Connolly
Past Sweet Only Smells Dead Thing
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
Thoughts Will Whatever Second-Hand Second-Rate Out Lazy He Talents Himself Condemned Friends Person Which Set
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. Cyril Connolly
Morning Man Walk Too Out City Should Large
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. Cyril Connolly
Man Every Wildly Out Imprisoned Thin Fat Fat Man
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Cyril Connolly
Wisdom Ignorance Darkness Passion Folly Purity Infatuation Avarice
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? Cyril Connolly
Liberty Will Translation Act
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
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Cyril Connolly
Living Only Name Idleness Infinite Capacity Coarse Present
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. Cyril Connolly
Be Happy Happy Passion Illusion Our Must Temperament Embrace Select Want Which Appeals
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. Cyril Connolly
Memories Control Our Returned Authorities Then Disorder Whom Card
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 Strong Made Rest Beginning Pain Enough Our Our Lives Clear Contemplate Equal Another Inflict Which Lovers Should Avoidance Union Who Lives Two
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
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 Worth Thirty-Five Meeting Ourselves Something More Could No-One Over Learn Than Us Teach Who
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 World Will Own Live Out Entice Writer He Soon Great Writer Readers Proud His May Them Creates Moment Lesser Filing Watch
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. Cyril Connolly
Food Worship Worst Solitary His Vice
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. Cyril Connolly
Fear Will Say Dare Neighbours Themselves Who Many
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