Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer

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Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once.
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

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