Cyril Connolly Quotes

The fool knows after he's suffered.

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

There's some bells you can't unring.

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.

Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Might have gone further and have fared worse.