Cyril Connolly livre Enemies of Promise
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 3: A Georgian Boyhood, Ch. 24: Vale (p. 253)
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Cyril Connolly: Citations en anglais
On his friend, George Orwell, in The Sunday Times (1968-09-29); reprinted in The Evening Colonnade (New York, 1973)
Cyril Connolly livre Enemies of Promise
Source: 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 livre The Unquiet Grave
Part III: La Clé des Chants (p. 91)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Cyril Connolly livre Enemies of Promise
Source: 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 livre 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 livre The Unquiet Grave
Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 6)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Cyril Connolly livre Enemies of Promise
Source: 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 livre Enemies of Promise
Source: 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 livre Enemies of Promise
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 1: The Next Ten Years (p. 5)
Cyril Connolly livre Enemies of Promise
Source: 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 livre 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 livre Enemies of Promise
Source: 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 livre 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 livre The Unquiet Grave
Part II: Te Palinure Petens
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
