Realism Quotes

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished " "Sooner or later in life, everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable" "The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace" "Perhaps I am old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really goes on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to follow the instructions of the professionals across generations and the world and plot to do a little harm as possible." "I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are and not as they ought to be" "Don't delude yourself into thinking something's working when it's not or you're gonna get fixated on a bad solution" "You can't be everything to everybody at once" "There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst" "To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don’t buy into the notion that because it’s fantastic, it should be unrealistic" "I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars" "What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?" "There is no good asking for a simple life." "I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against." "Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be" "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin"