Cyril Connolly

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.