Quotes by Connolly, Cyril

Youth is a period of missed opportunities. >>

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. >>

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, pract >>

Quotations about Conscience

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotis >>

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of >>

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. >>

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Connolly, Cyril