Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so. Cyril Connolly More Quotes by Cyril Connolly More Quotes From Cyril Connolly Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom. Cyril Connolly crabsbeliefdresses The artist secretes nostalgia around life. Cyril Connolly nostalgiaartist Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow. Cyril Connolly tomorroweyefacts Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. Cyril Connolly modernpoetarguing As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers. Cyril Connolly There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. Cyril Connolly Those whom the gods would destroy, they first call promising. Cyril Connolly A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Cyril Connolly Hate is the consequence of fear. We fear something before we hate it. A child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. Cyril Connolly Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. Cyril Connolly The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly get-marriedthangetfear Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. Cyril Connolly garlicvulgaritysaladlife Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. Cyril Connolly thinfatoutman
