We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.


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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not pe...
CHARLES CONNOLLY
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becom...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLY
'Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academ...
KEVIN CONNOLLY
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of c...
BILLY CONNOLLY
Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing u...
KEVIN CONNOLLY
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
JAMES CONNOLLY
I wanted somebody who would provide independence and a professional perspective to this organization...
ANGELA CONNOLLY
By law, we have to keep it at $68 million, and I for one won't go over the $68 million.
ANGELA CONNOLLY
We asked him to shoot us a number that it would take to stay in Polk County. This is the number we c...
ANGELA CONNOLLY
He has to come in at target. He's got to figure out how to do that.
ANGELA CONNOLLY
I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but yo...
BILLY CONNOLLY
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clea...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLY
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and d...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
I'm famous for my bottom dances, but you'll only see my bum and willy if you raise a million pounds ...
BILLY CONNOLLY
I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.
BILLY CONNOLLY
I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life...
BILLY CONNOLLY
There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointe...
BILLY CONNOLLY
Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
BILLY CONNOLLY
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterw...
BILLY CONNOLLY
It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them ...
BILLY CONNOLLY
“So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a ...
BILLY CONNOLLY
Roses are red,Violets are blue,I'm a schizophrenic,and so am I.
BILLY CONNOLLY
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it m...
BILLY CONNOLLY
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
BILLY CONNOLLY
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit th...
JAMES CONNOLLY
I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that s...
BILLY CONNOLLY
There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?
KEVIN CONNOLLY
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of l...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
“So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?”
BILLY CONNOLLY
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi...
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY