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Cyril Connolly Quotes

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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Youth is a period of missed opportunities  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) No taste is so acquired as that for someone else’s quality of mind  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) A woman’s desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other’s affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises  (Cyril Connolly Quotes) No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.  (Cyril Connolly Quotes)
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