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Famous Cyril Connolly Quotes
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.”
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”
“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.”
“In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.”
“Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.”
“A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.”
“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.”
“The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.”
“In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.”
“In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.”
“The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals”
“There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.”
“That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.”
“Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.”
“Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.”
“The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.”
“Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.”
“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.”