Cyril Connolly

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

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 it. I

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

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 will br

Cyril Connolly

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

The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Cyril Connolly

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Cyril Connolly

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

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

Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

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

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

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

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 it. I

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

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

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

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

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 will br

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.

The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.

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

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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

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

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

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

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.

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