Cyril Connolly quotes

" Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. " # Writers and Writing

" All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. " # Charm # Appreciation # Happiness

" Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. " # Journalism and Journalists # Arts and Artists # Literature

" Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. " # Writers and Writing

" There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. " # Suicide # Fear # Neighbors

" Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. " # Promises # God # Love

" Youth is a period of missed opportunities. " # Youth # Opportunity # Age and Aging

" The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. " # Marriage # Loneliness # Freedom

" Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. " # Life and Living # Drugs # Reality

" In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude. " # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power