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There are 44 quotes for the author Cyril Connolly

Quotations 21 to 40 of 44 Results Page: 1 2 3

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious "retreat" of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

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

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

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

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

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

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

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

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

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

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.

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

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