Memorable Quotes and quotations from Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)


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- There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

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- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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- Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Cyril Connolly - "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
- Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

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

Cyril Connolly -
- Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

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

Cyril Connolly -
- As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

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- There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

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- What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Cyril Connolly - Enemies of Promise (1938)
- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly - Enemies of Promise (1938)
- All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Cyril Connolly - Enemies of Promise (1938)
- Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.