239 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.