Cynical Quotes · Page 12

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

— Yue Minjun

It can be actually quite cynical to go, 'Isn't it nice to be nice to people?'

— Brett Goldstein

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

— Frederick Lenz

People feel quite cynical about a lot of TV and what is happening in the world.

— Angela Scanlon

“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ”

— Stanley Norman Cohen

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

— Max Lerner

A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration

— Viktor Yushchenko

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe…

— Henri Rousseau

Crucify the ego, before it's far too late. To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, and you will…

— Tool

I'm cynical by nature, but I am also very hopeful because I see people from the Left and the Right showing up…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and…

— Samuel Johnson

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

— Frank Herbert

I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking…

— James Vincent McMorrow

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other…

— John Berger

I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable,…

— Roger Rees

Labor party wants to make the economy fairer for everybody with a new industrial strategy and by investing in different parts of…

— Keir Starmer

“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just…

— Jeanette Winterson

The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the…

— Michel Houellebecq

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of…

— Veena Sud

You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called…

— Ernst Zundel

I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him…

— Adrian Hodges

What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language…

— George Saunders

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,…

— Dean Koontz

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

— Immanuel Kant

Life is too short to be cynical, So smile dare to believe, and leave the door open for the MAGIC..

— Anonymous

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

— Mark Twain

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

— Carlos Santana

A twinge of wonderment that might charm the most cynical of New York dance fans…They raise the bar, and then they jump…

— Jennifer Dunning

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

— Walter Kirn

It's hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But 'Rookie Blue' has a pure emotional center that's not cynical.

— Gregory Smith

Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical.

— Greg Davies

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

— Saul Bass

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

— Anonymous

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

— Pete Holmes

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

— Federico Fellini

I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.

— Zooey Deschanel

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

— Boris Johnson