“The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.”
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Famous Cyril Connolly Quotes
“Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.”
“Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.”
“Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.”
“There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.”
“When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.”
“No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.”
Source: Enemies of Promise
Source: Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas
“Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.”
Source: The evening colonnade
“Promise is the capacity for letting people down.”
Source: Enemies of Promise
Source: Enemies of Promise
“We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.”