Cyril Connolly Quotes

I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.

Cyril Connolly

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• I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • She
  • Amazing

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Scotland

• If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Terrorism

• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Nobody

• Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Me
  • Take
  • Jail

• Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Career
  • Trust

• As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester - and this is my last jest.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• The other gods! The other gods! The gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!... Look away... Go back... Do not see! Do not see! The vengeance of the infinite abysses... That cursed, that damnable pit... Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Earth
  • Sky

• 116: You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

  

  Alan Perlis

• Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • World
  • Men
  • Power

• Forget the telly, we just go to the crib, watch a movie in the Jacuzzi and smoke Ls while you do me.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Movie

• And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Long
  • American
  • Fighting

• I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

  

  Lloyd Cutler
  • Running

• I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Nice

• It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Truth
  • Words

• I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.

  

  James Woods
  • Retirement

• But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Tree

• Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

  

  John Dewey
  • World

• There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Pleasure
  • Result

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• The car drives really really good so far. No changes on the next pit stop. It's great, I can hold it down right along the bottom here in the corners I'm just ridin' around out here just waiting until later to make a move

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • Changes
  • Around
  • Bottom

• I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.

  

  Cyril Connolly