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Optimism and self-pity are th...

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Life is a maze in which we ta...

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The disasters of the world ar...

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

A life based on reason will a...

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 241 quotes

What grape to keep its place ...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Green leaves on a dead tree i...

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

We may assume that we keep pe...

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

It is significant comment on ...

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

An author arrives at a good s...

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

A woman's desire for revenge ...

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

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

One way to lose weight is to g...

One way to lose weight is to give life back meaning and purpose.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The artist one day falls throu...

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The only way for writers to me...

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

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

It is only in the country that...

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Sheep with a nasty side....

Sheep with a nasty side.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

Only by avoiding the beginning...

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

How many books did Renoir writ...

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

In a perfect union the man and...

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

The headmistress was an able i...

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

Cyril Connolly 241 quotes

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