Quote #28

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

More from Cyril Connolly

  1. Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.
  2. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
  3. No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
  4. A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engro…
  5. Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
  6. The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
  7. A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settl…
  8. Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

All Cyril Connolly quotes