Cyril Connolly

"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. "

"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 grasped at once. "

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once. "

"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. "

"Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. "