Cyril Connolly — English Journalist born on September 10, 1903, died on November 26, 1974

Cyril Vernon Connolly was a literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon and wrote Enemies of Promise, which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth... (wikipedia)

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.