Cyril Connolly citáty a výroky
Cyril Connolly: Citáty anglicky
Zdroj: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 3: A Georgian Boyhood, Ch. 24: Vale (p. 253)
On his friend, George Orwell, in The Sunday Times (1968-09-29); reprinted in The Evening Colonnade (New York, 1973)
Zdroj: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 4: The Modern Movement (p. 30)
“Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.”
Part III: La Clé des Chants (p. 91)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Zdroj: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 16: Outlook Unsettled (p. 136-137)
“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.”
Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 62)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
“Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.”
"Told in Gath" (a parody of Aldous Huxley)
The Condemned Playground (1945)
Zdroj: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 2: The Mandarin Dialect (p. 13)
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”
Zdroj: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 14: The Charlock’s Shade (p. 116)
“I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.”
Zdroj: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 1: The Next Ten Years (p. 5)
Zdroj: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 16: Outlook Unsettled (p. 136)
“Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.”
Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 37)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
Edward Thomas, "Early One Morning" from Poems (1917) http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/thomas04.html#five
Misattributed
Zdroj: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 15: The Slimy Mallows (p. 122-123)
“Peace … is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.”
"What Will He Do Next?" (a lampoon on military analysis)
The Condemned Playground (1945)
said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.'
Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 11)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
