Quotes by Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

British criticus

Lived from: 1903 - 1974

Category: Media Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 10 september 1903 Died: 26 november 1974

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  • No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
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  • Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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  • Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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  • The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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  • The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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  • The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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  • The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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  • The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
    The Unquiet Grave (1944)
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  • The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
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  • The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
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  • The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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  • The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
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  • There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
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  • There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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  • There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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  • 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.
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  • Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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  • Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
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  • We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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  • We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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