Top 49 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

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

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

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

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.