Quotes by : Cyril Connolly

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where....

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach....

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

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

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark....

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

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this....

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational....

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of....

In the sex-war thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally....