The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real.… — 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
