Cynical Quotes · Page 9

It's really important to differentiate between being sceptical and cynical.

— Tyler Henry

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

— H. L. Mencken

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

— Winston Churchill

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]

— Mike Ferguson

I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.

— Conan O'Brien

I'm thankful that we can soon get back to being ungrateful, disillusioned, and cynical.

— Anonymous

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.

— Kevin Macdonald

I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath.

— Kathy Burke

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but…

— Chrystia Freeland

I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your…

— Todd Haynes

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting…

— Edi Rama

In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film,…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely…

— Gerard Butler

“Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism – it's my least favorite quality, and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life…

— Conan O'Brien

I am incredibly cynical, and I don't think that's something people would guess. People think I'm all positive, but I'm a skeptic.

— Nikita Dutta

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it1s cracked up to be. That's why people are…

— Erica Jong

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting,…

— Cecelia Ahern

“So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested…

— Ron Hansen

Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities,…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and…

— Conan O'Brien

I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated.…

— Simon Beaufoy

“Mockers are cynical, critical, condescending, and controlling. You always feel off balance around them. You never know where you stand. They always…

— Andy Stanley

Well, if your like most people, you'll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out,the you'll spend the rest…

— Jeremy G

“I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization.”

— Paul Schrader

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

— Brock Chisholm

Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

— Dov Davidoff

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

— Erica Jong

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

— Vladimir Nabokov

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

I feel like a realist about Hollywood. To be cynical about it is to some degree fair, but I don't think it's…

— Ti West

“If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.”

— Bryant McGill

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Brett Goldstein

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

— Yue Minjun

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

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

— Helen Fielding

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

— Derek Landy

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

— Ty Segall