Cyril Connolly on the Civilized and the Uncivilized

“The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have never forgiven them.”

Cyril Connolly

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

Cyril Connolly