Cyril Connolly Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

  Cyril Connolly

  Rivers, Sitting, Tipping

• Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

  Cyril Connolly

  Nature, Men, Literature

• An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Style, Language

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

• The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

  Cyril Connolly

  Communication, Survival, Society

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