Cyril Connolly Quotes

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

Cyril Connolly

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• Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Evolution

• I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Society

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • God
  • Interested
  • Batting

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Age
  • Religious

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Family
  • Home
  • You

• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Different
  • Me
  • Kind

• Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Patience

• If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.

  

  Matthew Fox
  • Men
  • Women
  • Desire

• When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.

  

  Jon Brion
  • True
  • Joy

• Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Love
  • Why
  • Power

• I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • People
  • Racism

• Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Great
  • Country
  • Character