No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Quote by Cyril Connolly

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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of...

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of...

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

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

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...

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

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

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn,...

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn,...

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have...

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have...

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself...

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself...

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

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

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for...

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for...

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

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

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

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

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

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion,...

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion,...

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to...

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to...

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...

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...

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 person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His...

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His...

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or...

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or...