Cyril Connolly Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.”

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

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

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

“The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.”

“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.”

“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.”

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

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

“The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.”