239 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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

M is for Marx And clashing of classes And movement of masses And massing of asses.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.