Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor.

Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window's sunshine in summer.

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

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.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism is the humour of hatred.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.