Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Someone told me I’m a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

The sun?" Goldman said in an unguarded moment. "I hear they've shot it.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Si la cursilería fuera un pecado, yo cada noche me ganaría el infierno.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.