If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. - Cyril Connolly
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
- Cyril Connolly
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. - Cyril Connolly
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. - Cyril Connolly
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out. - Cyril Connolly
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. - Cyril Connolly
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to. - Cyril Connolly
Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. - Cyril Connolly
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
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
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