Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes. "
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
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.
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.
Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.
They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody. " - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.
Everybody's got a dud. You can't get out of it. That's the price of admission: you'll get some duds. You'll get some things where you missed a little. It's a crap feeling when you're going through it. But the main thing is as long as you're not doing anything for cynical reasons, then you'll be okay.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.