Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

- Cyril Connolly

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

- Cyril Connolly

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

- Cyril Connolly

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

- 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

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

- Cyril Connolly

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

- Cyril Connolly

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

- Cyril Connolly

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

- Cyril Connolly