Best Cyril Connolly Sayings
- Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure… All
- There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover. Ex
- Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. Believe
- The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the… Absorbs
- The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. Civilization
- Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. Artist
- That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. Center
- Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body. Body
- A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds… Among
- A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when… Adding
- The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted… Anglers
- Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. Dead
- The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. Common
- Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. Capacity
- We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility. Becomes
- Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Avarice
- When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and… Animal
- In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit… Affair
- A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with… Always Unhappy
- The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag… Art
- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. Becomes
- 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
- Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so. Bitterness
- Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life. Believe
- 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 infallible rejuvenator. Age
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