Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Speech is the small change of silence.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Caricature is rough truth.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

Bring the army of the faithful through.

Passions spin the plot We are betrayed by what is false within.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

I have no cynicism at all.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our history.

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.