239 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

When in doubt, choose greatness.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.