Top 49 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

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

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

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

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

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.