Cynical Quotes

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

I'm a cynical idealist.

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

They love too much that die for love.

Join the army and see the next world.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.