Jim Butcher Quotes

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

I'm a realist.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

I consider myself a realist.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Well, I won't say I'm cynical. I'd say I'm pragmatic.

I'm not Pollyanna.

I'm very much a realist.

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

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

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

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

I'm sick of my own romanticism!