Cyril Connolly

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.

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

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

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

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

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.