239 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

I have always disliked myself at any given moment; the total of such moments is my life

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.