Cyril Connolly

The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot " to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves that they have taken material which should have a life of its own to disperse it in noises upon the air.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.