The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
- Cyril Connolly
More Quotes By Cyril Connolly
- It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
- The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each...
- 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.
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