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Cyril Connolly - From the Aging category:
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius. (Cyril Connolly)
Cyril Connolly - From the Happiness category:
We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. (Cyril Connolly)
Cyril Connolly - From the Life category:
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk. (Cyril Connolly)
Cyril Connolly - From the Potential category:
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. (Cyril Connolly)
Cyril Connolly - From the Responsibility category:
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. (Cyril Connolly)
Cyril Connolly - From the Rewards category:
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. (Cyril Connolly)
Cyril Connolly - From the Taste category:
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste. (Cyril Connolly)
Cyril Connolly - From the Writing category:
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly)
Cyril Connolly - From the Writing category:
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. (Cyril Connolly)
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