239 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.