Cynical Quotes · Page 10

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.”

— Abhaidev

Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.

— Patrick Lencioni

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

— Franklin P. Adams

“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.”

— Jennifer Crusie

You're cynical and beautiful, you always make a scene. You're monochrome delirious, you're nothing that you seem.

— Goo Goo Dolls

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our…

— Adora Svitak

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical…

— Sonny Perdue

I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the…

— Nicolas Cage

In general, I think we're more or less shaped and formed by our late 20s. Things come along during that time that…

— Konnie Huq

“Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury,…

— William Norwich

I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic,…

— David Nicholls

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life.…

— Teddy Thompson

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And…

— Larry Diamond

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear…

— Alan Jackson

On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed…

— August Strindberg

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the…

— Arthur Koestler

I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are…

— Randall Wallace

If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he…

— Seymour Hersh

With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's…

— Walton Goggins

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

— Brendan Behan

I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot…

— Mary H.K. Choi

I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.

— Carol Burnett

Some people are very cynical about it, but we're not trying to replace Bob and Terry.

— Ant McPartlin

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

— Michael Robotham

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

— Rick Pitino

I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

— MyAnna Buring

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh.

— Ty Segall

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

— Bob Dylan

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life…

— Amy Winehouse

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

— Tucker Carlson

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

— Derek Landy

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

— Helen Fielding

“One is sad when one thinks about life—cynical when one -sees what people make of it.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

— Ras Kass