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Quotes by Cyril Connolly

  • Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
  • The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
  • Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.
  • There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
  • Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
  • Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
  • Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
  • A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
  • All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
  • Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
  • Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.