Cyril Connolly

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be read more

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate read more

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark read more

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.