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Fallen leaves lying on the gr...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The man who is master of his ...

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The friendships which last ar...

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 241 quotes

Vulgarity is the garlic in th...

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

No-one was ever made wretched...

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

We are all serving a life sen...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Were I to deduce any system f...

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 241 quotes

Civilization is an active dep...

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The goal of every culture is ...

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 241 quotes

Dining out is a vice, a dissi...

Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

It is the fear of middle-age ...

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Hemingway is great in that al...

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

We create the world in which ...

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

While thoughts exist, words a...

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Like the bee its sting, the p...

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The detective story itself is...

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The books I haven't written a...

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Most people do not believe in...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

From now on - specialize; nev...

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Melancholy and remorse forms ...

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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