Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connollywas a literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizonand wrote Enemies of Promise, which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth10 September 1903
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
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The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.
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The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
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Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
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The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
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Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
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It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
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The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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M is for Marx And clashing of classes And movement of masses And massing of asses.