KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Cyril Connolly Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Cyril Connolly

Showing 21-30 of 49 Quotes by Cyril Connolly

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Acquired Else Mind Quality Someone Taste

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Like Nature Our Repose Truest Water

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Better Public Self Than Write Yourself

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Any Consequence Function Masterpiece Other Produce Task True Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Common Meet Only Over Peek Quick Share Way Writers

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Act Liberty Translation Will

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Appreciation Charming Conceal Dependence Others People Something Total

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Becomes Before Child Consequence Fear Fears Hate Hates Man Noise Noises Something Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Faithful Grow Individuals Loyal Older Situations Types Young

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: City Large Man Morning Out Should Too Walk

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: September 10th, 1903

Died: November 26th, 1974

Links

Find Cyril Connolly on Amazon

Related Authors

Lionel Barber
Fiona Barton
Melvyn Bragg
Jeremy Clarkson
David Frost
Lucy Hawking
Penny Junor
Charles Edward Montague
Polly Toynbee
John Wilkes

Popular Authors

Edmund Burke Jesus Christ Ralph Waldo Emerson Martin Luther King, Jr. Elon Musk John D. Rockefeller Travis Scott Elie Wiesel

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Dad Fear Health Medical Mother's Day Moving On Music