Julian Fellowes Quotes

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

Hope is the denial of reality.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I don't have any expectations.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth …I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

False hope really makes you cynical.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.