There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Cyril ConnollyPurity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril ConnollyLike the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
Cyril ConnollySlums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly