The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
Cyril ConnollyAll charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril ConnollyWe create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
Cyril ConnollyThere is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.
Cyril Connolly