Cyril Connolly Quotes and Quotation

(1903 - 1974)

• "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."

• "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."

• "There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

• "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

• "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."

• "Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk."

• "The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."