Cyril Connolly Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.”

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

“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.”

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

“Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.”

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

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

“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.”

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

“The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.”