Quotes by : Cyril Connolly

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what....

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

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin....

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

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of....

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

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

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may....

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

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