Best Cyril Connolly Quotes
- 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. Expatriates
- The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and… Aimless
- There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God. Disappointing
- Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a… Any
- There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. Bad Relationship
- Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in… Active
- English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… Alternatives
- In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Female
- Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. Boredom
- Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. Absent
- A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions. All
- Sheep with a nasty side. England
- It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. Book
- The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is… Always Splitting
- The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. Artist
- It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it… Alchemist
- No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will… All
- Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in… Approaching
- In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together. All
- If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. Admit
- In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. All
- A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be… Always Require
- The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals Contrive
- Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic… Behavior
- Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record. Break
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