Cyril Connolly Quotes

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

  Cyril Connolly

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  Tags in Man, Every, Growth

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

  Cyril Connolly

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  Tags in Better, Public, Writing

• A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

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• It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

  Cyril Connolly

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  Tags in Young, Infidelity

• A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

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

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  Tags in Person, Talents, Thoughts

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

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  Tags in People, Something

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

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  Tags in Writing, Nice

• Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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  Tags in People, Civilization, Small

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Translation, Private, Language

• For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

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• Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

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• Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

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• Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

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  Tags in Present, Capacity

• In the s*ex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

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  Tags in Female, Thought

• 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.

  Cyril Connolly

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  Tags in Expect, Good

• It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

  Cyril Connolly

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  Tags in Person, Book

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

  Cyril Connolly

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

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

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Cyril Connolly (70)

Birth:	10th July, 1903
Death:	26th November, 1974
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Cyril Vernon Connolly  was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon and wrote Enemies of Promise , which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth.

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