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
More Quotes By Cyril Connolly
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom... We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and... Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no... No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither... While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry... All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life... Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
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