Cyril Connolly Men Quotations

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?