#cynic

Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love #experience

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. ↗

— Tony Blair

#commentators #cynics #human #human progress #never

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. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#cynicism #depict #experiment #hazardous #humour

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#carrie #could #cynical #hard #i

I will never be cynical again about people. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#again #cynical #i #never #people