Сирил Коннолли цитаты
13 0Сирил Коннолли
Дата рождения: 10. Сентябрь 1903
Дата смерти: 26. Ноябрь 1974
Другие имена:Cyril Connolly
Сирил Вернон Конолли — английский литературный критик, член колледжа патафизики. C 1940 года по 1949 был редактором влиятельного литературного журнала Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art. Коннолли придумал много остроумных эпитетов и проницательных замечаний, которые широко цитируются.
Цитаты Сирил Коннолли
„Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.“
— Cyril Connolly
The New Statesman (1933-02-25)
„While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.“
— Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
„Its cardinal assumption is that neither the writer nor the reader is in a hurry, that both are possessed of a classical education and a private income. It is Ciceronian English.“
— Cyril Connolly
Context: The Mandarin style at its best yields the richest and most complete expression of the English language. It is the diction of Donne, Browne, Addison, Johnson, Gibbon, de Quincey, Landor, Carlyle and Ruskin as opposed to that of Bunyan, Dryden, Locke, Defoe, Cowper, Cobbett, Hazlitt, Southey and Newman. It is characterized by long sentences with many dependent clauses, by the use of the subjunctive and conditional, by exclamations and interjections, quotations, allusions, metaphors, long images, Latin terminology, subtlety and conceits. Its cardinal assumption is that neither the writer nor the reader is in a hurry, that both are possessed of a classical education and a private income. It is Ciceronian English.
Ch. 3: The Challenge to the Mandarins (p. 17-18)
