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

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
Cyril Connolly

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril Connolly

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Cyril Connolly

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Cyril Connolly