“ In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Cyril Connolly
“ As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. Cyril Connolly
“ Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933] Cyril Connolly
“ Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no Cyril Connolly
“ 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. Cyril Connolly
“ Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. Cyril Connolly
“ Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Cyril Connolly
“ There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. Cyril Connolly
“ The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing… Cyril Connolly
“ Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. Cyril Connolly
“ Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. Cyril Connolly
