Cyril Connolly - 🦋 Beautiful Quotes

Cyril Connolly | imagination

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.