Connolly, Cyril | Quotations Directory

Connolly, Cyril

You are here: Home > Quotations by Author ( A - Z ) > C > Connolly, Cyril

Listings

Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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

Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Browse Categories