Connolly, Cyril Vernon

English author and literary critic

• "The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
• "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice."
• "Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
• "Whom the gods would destroy, they first call'promising'."
• "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."