We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. – Cyril Connolly
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. – Cyril Connolly
No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. – Cyril Connolly
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. – Cyril Connolly
I tell again the oldest and the newest story of all the world, — the story of Invincible Love! This tale divine — ancient as the beginning of things, fresh and young as the passing hour — has forms and names various as humanity. – Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891