Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up — … - Cyril Connolly

" "
Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up — execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.

Cyril Connolly

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Cyril Connolly

Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English author, editor and critic.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Cyril Vernon Connolly

All quotes from Cyril Connolly Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Cyril Connolly:

Oscar Wilde W. H. Auden Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Mann Anton Chekhov

Additional quotes by Cyril Connolly

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.

Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up — execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children. - Cyril Connolly

About Cyril Connolly

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by Cyril Connolly

Unlimited Quote Collections