Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connollywas a literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizonand wrote Enemies of Promise, which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth10 September 1903
mistake matter good-work
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
women wife lovers
There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
real passion two
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.
lamps way peeking
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
names infinite live-in-the-present
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
cheating revenge infidelity
A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.
writing watches world
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.
growing-up moving son
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
self dungeons prison
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
pain bad-relationship two
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.
dungeon self serving
We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self
argue arms lifetime main river splitting truth
Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
fury lover searching woman
There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover
mediocre
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.