Cyril Connolly Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

  Cyril Connolly

  Revenge, Intelligence, Intellectual

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

• A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

  Cyril Connolly

  Hands, Lazy, Laziness

• Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Intelligence

  Enemies of Promise ch. 13 (1938)

• A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Travel, Past, Years

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.114, University of Chicago Press

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