Cynical Quotes · Page 7

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

— Joseph Pulitzer

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

— Zach Galifianakis

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

— Bill Mauldin

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

— Erica Jong

Up until 'Mannix,' most private investigators were hard-nosed, cynical guys who lived in a seedy area and had no emotions.

— Mike Connors

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

— Abraham Verghese

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

— Graham Norton

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the…

— George Bernard Shaw

What a thing, Europe. Europe! The cultured Europe! We are the barbarians, the Indians, the blacks, the southerners. How cynical is Europe.…

— Hugo Chavez

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time…

— Rose Byrne

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance…

— Joe Klein

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses…

— Paulo Coelho

“Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with…

— Francois Maspero

I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter…

— Paul Haggis

In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small,…

— Marianne Williamson

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing…

— Maya Angelou

“Call me cynical, call me cold-hearted, but I don't believe in just knowing and love at first sight. I just don't believe…

— Emily May

Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf.…

— John Grisham

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies.…

— John Malkovich

“If anyone knows how fixed the Pulitzers are, it’s the editors at the Times. I was part of a New York Times…

— Chris Hedges

“To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and…

— Dave Matthes

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in…

— Ernie Pyle

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips…

— Julian Baggini

I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the…

— Graham Cray

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

— H. L. Mencken

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

— Ricky Gervais

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'

— Nell Scovell

“One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.”

— Eloisa James

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

— Brian D. McLaren

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

— Alex Steffen

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

— Carl Jung

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you…

— Anonymous

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

— Stokely Carmichael

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

— K'naan

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

— Matt Smith

It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.

— Richard Quest

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

— Charlie Brooker