"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen……" — Cyril Connolly
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
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144 Quotes by Cyril Connolly
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- The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
- Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
- When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
- In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods,…
- No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
- Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
- If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always…
- Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are…
- Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
- Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
- Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
- No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn…