“Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb?” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“...there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“A love affair is a grafting operation. "What has once been joined never forgets". There is a moment when the graft takes;… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“We are captivated by the feminine shadow of the self we might have been; in my case by that counterpart of the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
“We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share
