A love affair is a grafting operation. “What has once been joined never forgets”. There is a moment when the graft takes; up to then it is possible without difficulty the separation which afterwards comes only through breaking off a great hunk of oneself; the ingrown fibre of hours, days, years.

— Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly Quotes

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

— Cyril Connolly

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

— Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

— Cyril Connolly

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

— Cyril Connolly

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

— Cyril Connolly

Sheep with a nasty side.

— Cyril Connolly

A woman’s desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

— Cyril Connolly

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

— Cyril Connolly

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

— Cyril Connolly

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

— Cyril Connolly

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

— Cyril Connolly

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

— Cyril Connolly

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

— Cyril Connolly

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

— Cyril Connolly

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

— Cyril Connolly

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. “Yes,” he replied, “there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters – to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”

— Cyril Connolly

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

— Cyril Connolly

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

— Cyril Connolly

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

— Cyril Connolly

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

— Cyril Connolly
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