A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

Quote by Cyril Connolly

Topics: Life Quotes, Reason Quotes

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write...

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write...

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what...

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what...

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the...

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the...

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to...

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to...

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a...

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a...

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child...

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child...

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of...

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of...

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

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

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of...

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of...

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and...

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and...

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a...

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a...

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.