Cyril Connolly Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sex, Revenge, War

• In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

  Cyril Connolly

  Cheating, Sex, War

  Unquiet Grave (1944) pt. 1

• The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

  Cyril Connolly

  War, World, Able

  1944 The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.

• Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Peace, War, Morbid

  Cyril Connolly (1946). “The Condemned Playground”

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