Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Cyril connolly
Date: March 9, 2007
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.