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Inspirational Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
- Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
- Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
- There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
- In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.
- The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
- The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
- There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
- Promise is the capacity for letting people down.
- We fear something before we hate it...
- We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
- The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
- We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
- Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
- Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
- While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
- Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento