Bitterness Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image “Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bitterness Failure Inspirational Overrated Success Undesirable
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“What?" I ask. I try not to get snappy with her. She hasn't really done anything wrong. Falling in love with Turner isn't a… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose’s scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. —Francis… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
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Forgiving someone who've done you wrong or didn't treat you right could mean that you are allowing yourself to end up away from bitterness. — April T Pascua Copy Share Image
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Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image