Cyril Connolly Frases famosas
“Quem domina suas emoções é escravo da razão.”
he who is master of his emotions is apt to be his reason's slave.
The Condemned Playground - Página 16, Cyril Connolly - READ BOOKS, 2006, ISBN 1406726524, 9781406726527 - 296 páginas
“O pavor da solidão é maior que o medo da escravidão: assim, nos casamos.”
Cyril Connolly livro The Unquiet Grave
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married
The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle - Página 12, de Cyril Connolly - Publicado por Viking Press, 1957 - 152 páginas
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others
Enemies of Promise - Página 136, de Cyril Connolly - Publicado por Deutsch,1973 - 265 páginas
Cyril Connolly: Frases em inglês
Cyril Connolly livro Enemies of Promise
Fonte: 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)
Cyril Connolly livro Enemies of Promise
Fonte: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 4: The Modern Movement (p. 30)
“Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.”
Cyril Connolly livro The Unquiet Grave
Part III: La Clé des Chants (p. 91)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Cyril Connolly livro Enemies of Promise
Fonte: 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.”
Cyril Connolly livro The Unquiet Grave
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)
Cyril Connolly livro The Unquiet Grave
Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 6)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Cyril Connolly livro Enemies of Promise
Fonte: 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.”
Cyril Connolly livro Enemies of Promise
Fonte: 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.”
Cyril Connolly livro Enemies of Promise
Fonte: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 1: The Next Ten Years (p. 5)
Cyril Connolly livro Enemies of Promise
Fonte: 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.”
Cyril Connolly livro The Unquiet Grave
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 <br class="br">Misattributed
Cyril Connolly livro Enemies of Promise
Fonte: 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)
Cyril Connolly livro The Unquiet Grave
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)
Cyril Connolly livro The Unquiet Grave
Part II: Te Palinure Petens
The Unquiet Grave (1944)