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One Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
- There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help…
- Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
- 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…
- If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
- 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…
- 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…
- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.
- The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization…
- The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness…
- There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such…
- The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river…
- There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we…
- Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each…
- The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
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