I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often cynicism is confused with wisdom and my scorn is confused with a knowing which I don't have.

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.

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.

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

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

Remember beneath every cynic there lies a romantic and probably an injured one.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt they're sensitive and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny dear part in them that's still alive.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well liked them and had great respect for people there was nothing cynical about Walt.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.