97 ordspråk av Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly föddes den September 10th 1903 och dog den 26 November 1974 - English writer
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 In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. |
| 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. |
| It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair. |
| It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. |
| It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator |
| Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk |
| Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. |
| Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once |
| Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. |
| Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do |
| No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. |
| No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book |
| No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. |
| Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. |
| Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
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