We love but once, for once only are we perfectly e... -Cyril Connolly

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Cyril Connolly , Journalist
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Cyril Connolly was a respected journalist, writer, and literary critic known for his contributions to literature and the art of criticism. His insightful reviews and essays on literature have made him an influential figure in the literary world.

Cyril Connolly Quotes to Explore

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife....
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food....
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth....
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature....
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book....
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning....
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise....
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness....
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidan...
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall....

Love Quotes to Explore

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?...
Love, and do what you like....
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important....
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave....
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway....
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation....
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all...
I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce....
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it....
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems....