Top 49 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

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.

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

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

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.