239 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it.

La cultura europea ha sido muy fértil en la invención de infiernos.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

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

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.