Cowardice Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image “Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cowardice Modern Negative Optimism Pity Self Self pity
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimism…is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Optimism is essence of a person with fighting spirit. They are armed with belief that whatever situation may be, they will emerge victorious. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
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
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacles to our progress exist within our own lives in the form of cowardice and the tendency to give up. Breaking through… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Man alone mesures time. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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