Quotes by : Cyril Connolly

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

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change....

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

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

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

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

The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always....

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

Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener than....

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