Logo
Quote by Cyril Connolly
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child

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. – Cyril Connolly

Other quotes by Cyril Connolly

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

Category:
Corruption
Author
Cyril Connolly
Read Quote

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

Category:
Wisdom
Author
Cyril Connolly
Read Quote

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

Category:
Terrorism
Author
Cyril Connolly
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Home
category

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and Id like to see them again. And Id love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. – Dave Eggers

Category:
Home

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. – Jane Austen

Category:
Home

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. – Andrew Vachss

Category:
Home

I cant grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Dont bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs. – Bobby Flay

Category:
Home

Random Quotes

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Discontent

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945

Category:
Country

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulus mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry. – Maurice Gibb

Category:
dating

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Cats