Cyril Connolly

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home…

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution…

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food…

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child…

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to…

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will…

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm…

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another…

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a…

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear…

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness…

The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife…

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female…

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have…

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married…