239 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectified. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.