Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. - Cyril Connolly 1 Share Now -
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 picnic parties are heard above. - Cyril Connolly 2 Share Now -
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. - Cyril Connolly 5 Share Now -
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. - Cyril Connolly 6 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. - Cyril Connolly 10 Share Now -
