"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
- Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903 - 1974)

"Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations."
- Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903 - 1974)

"Everything is dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable."
- Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903 - 1974)

"Fallen leave lying on the grass in November sun brings more happiness than the daffodils."
- Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903 - 1974)

"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
- Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903 - 1974)

"Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk."
- Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903 - 1974)

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
- Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903 - 1974)

"The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave."
- Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903 - 1974)