Cyril Connolly Book Quotations

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.