Cyril Connolly Quotes

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

2679

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

3678

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

1773

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.

1966