Cyril Connolly Famous Quotes
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."
Cyril Connolly Quotations
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Frederick Buechner
"Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn."
The Sufi
"A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'"
Alan Marshall Beck
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J Locke
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Red
It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire