Cynicism Quotes

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.

Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'Tatsu.

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

Recognising clichés is a sign of aging.

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

You are not a better or wiser person simply because you’ve ceased to care.

In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines

Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.

What good is ye world when ye canst not livest hither.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Out of the mouths of babes comes only bubbles. Out of the mouths of men like me, only babble.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.

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

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.