Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, – something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Cyril Connolly Read Quote
