Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

I find myself being quite cynical - and I think we all kind of are - towards the idea that it's associated with being a musician; you know... the kind of rock-star attitude. So, I hope that people know it's a joke.

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

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