【QUOTES DIRECTORY】 【QUOTES DIRECTORY】

【TOP 50】Cyril Connolly Quotes - WhatsApp Status | Page-1

Are you looking for Cyril Connolly quotes? If Yes, then you have reached at right place because this page has a collection of popular Cyril Connolly quotes which are updated in 2024. Following are the list of some top Cyril Connolly quotes, You can copy and paste below quotes and share with your friend and family on whatsapp, facebook, twitter.

Page 1 of 3, Showing 50 of 102 Records

«
1
2
3
»
›

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Authorities English Journalist

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied - Cyril Connolly Quotes

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike - Cyril Connolly Quotes

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

English Journalist Female

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

English Journalist

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends - Cyril Connolly Quotes

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy - Cyril Connolly Quotes

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Fear

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him - Cyril Connolly Quotes

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him

Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality

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

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

Consequences English Journalist

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

English Journalist

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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

Art

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living - Cyril Connolly Quotes

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Character English Journalist

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 of our happy union. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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 of our happy union.

Absence Marriage

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Comfort English Journalist

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Appreciation English Journalist

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Appreciation English Journalist

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 to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish wi - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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 to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish wi

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well? - Cyril Connolly Quotes

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils

The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave - Cyril Connolly Quotes

The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave

Man

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Arts And Artists

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Bondage English Journalist

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 that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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 that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

English Journalist

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 a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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 a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

English Journalist

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types - Cyril Connolly Quotes

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

English Journalist Home

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions - Cyril Connolly Quotes

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals - Cyril Connolly Quotes

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self - Cyril Connolly Quotes

We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover - Cyril Connolly Quotes

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

It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

English Journalist Nature

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

English Journalist Mind

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

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

Art

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

English Journalist Food

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Calm English Journalist

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Bombs English Journalist

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Civilization Decadence

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

English Journalist

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

English Journalist

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. - Cyril Connolly Quotes

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.

Page 1 of 3, Showing 50 of 102 Records

«
1
2
3
»
›

Quotes By Popular Topics

View All Topics (A - Z)

Like Our Facebook Page

Motivational, Inspirational, Funny Quotes