Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

— Caitlin Thomas

Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

— Caitlin Thomas

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God…

— Caitlin Thomas

there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.

— Caitlin Thomas

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

— Caitlin Thomas

There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which…

— Caitlin Thomas

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

— Caitlin Thomas

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

— Caitlin Thomas

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

— Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is…

— Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private…

— Caitlin Thomas

There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference…

— Caitlin Thomas

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

— Caitlin Thomas

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way…

— Caitlin Thomas

“Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.”

— Caitlin Thomas

So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into…

— Caitlin Thomas

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

— Caitlin Thomas

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing…

— Caitlin Thomas

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

— Caitlin Thomas

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest…

— Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They…

— Caitlin Thomas

Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything,…

— Caitlin Thomas

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

— Caitlin Thomas

If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something…

— Caitlin Thomas

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

— Caitlin Thomas