Julie Burchill Quotes

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

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

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

You don't believe in love, do you?" - "I think it exists. I just don't think it will ever exist for me.

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.