Quotes by Connolly, Cyril

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have c >>

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neigh >>

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder >>

Quotations about School

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they we >>

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes wh >>

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. >>

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

Connolly, Cyril