Civilians Quote by Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

— Cyril Connolly

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

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

— Cyril Connolly

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

— Cyril Connolly

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”

— Cyril Connolly

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

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

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

— Cyril Connolly

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

— Cyril Connolly