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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. (Cyril Connolly) Related concepts: usually something charming their conceal |
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. (Cyril Connolly) Related concepts: those younger about because always |
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly) Related concepts: write public better write yourself |
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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. (Cyril Connolly) Related concepts: except reality everything unendurable dangerous |
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. (Cyril Connolly) Related concepts: fear greed comfort |
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. (Cyril Connolly) Related concepts: infinite coarse present capacity living |
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. (Cyril Connolly) Related concepts: vindictiveness weapon female thoughtlessness |


Not as successful as an author, Cyril Connolly was a great editor of one of the most famous literary magazine entitled Horizon.
He was born in a wealthy family and he spent a large part of his childhood touring with his father in South Africa where his father worked as a malacologist. He also spent some part of his childhood days at the castles with his mother ...