Cynical Quotes · Page 13

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

— Kurt Russell

Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

— Tom Robbins

It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

— Andy Dunn

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

— Armando Iannucci

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

— Spike Milligan

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

— Marg Helgenberger

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

— Fred Armisen

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.

— Nancy Mitford

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of…

— R. C. Sproul

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without…

— J. Irwin Miller

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom,…

— Ronald Reagan

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical…

— Sarah Polley

“After that, we weren't the same anymore. We'd become men. Disillusioned and cynical. Slightly bitter too. We had nothing. We hadn't even…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

“They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one…

— Richard Kadrey

It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is…

— Lance Armstrong

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could…

— Julian Baggini

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a…

— Russell Jacoby

There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different…

— Quentin Tarantino

This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to…

— Barack Obama

“You are far too cynical for someone your age." "Well people are disappointing!" Thorn said. "Yes, but they are also complicated. I…

— Carolyn Gilman

There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid…

— Jonathan Blow

What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of…

— Christa Wolf

So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

— Bell Hooks

“I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“His more cynical side suspected that humans had never really needed an excuse to pick on other humans.”

— Christopher Nuttall

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.

— George C. Wolfe

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

— Yoko Ono

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

— H. L. Mencken

Whenever I see Myself In A Mirror, It Whispers,You're A Monster And I says Doubt Me.

— NizamShahbaaz

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

— Ann Beattie

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

— Chris Grayling

When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.

— Derek Trucks

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

— Sarah Silverman

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

— Louie Gohmert

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so…

— James Gunn