There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“A child, left to play alone, says of quite an easy thing, 'Now I am going to to do something very difficult'.… — 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 Image
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 Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
