Quotes by Cyril Connolly

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

#Food

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

#Fear, #Loneliness, #Marriage

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her...

#Fear, #Teachers And Teaching

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

#God

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part...

#Behavior, #Problems, #Society

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

#Problems, #Women

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

#Respect

The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave

#Passion

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

#Idleness

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

#Cyril Connolly

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

#Cyril Connolly

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

#Cyril Connolly