Cyril Connolly Children Quotations

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, popularity, vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may learn to cease from hating. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.