Cynical Quotes

I'm not cynical at all.

— Frankie Boyle

“It's just so perfuck.”

— Toba Beta

I'm not cynical.

— Laura Schlessinger

I'm a cynical idealist.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

England's just very cynical.

— Winston Marshall

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

— Amy Ray

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

— Anatole France

I'm not easily wound up, but overly cynical people irritate me.

— Freddie Fox

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

— J Mascis

Boxing fans are a very cynical bunch.

— David Haye

I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'

— Pilou Asbaek

“a cynical electorate is a self-centered electorate.”

— Barack Obama

I'm furious and cynical, nasty and sarcastic because I'm frightened, of being betrayed and crushed, disappointed and broken.

— Anonymous

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

— Alexei Sayle

“What she tried to label honesty in his candour was probably only a cynical defiance of the laws of right and wrong.”

— Saki

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

— Matt Tong

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

— Bono

“He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays--cynical but hopeful.”

— Rose Macaulay

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it,…

— Laura Schlessinger

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into…

— Isaac Goldberg

I like threesomes with two women, not because I'm a cynical sexual predator. Oh no! But because I'm a romantic. I'm looking…

— Russell Brand

“At least you pay for them.” “I could support a foundling hospital, and you would applaud my virtue.” “I didn’t expect you…

— Eloisa James

I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at…

— Madonna Ciccone

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred…

— Anya Seton

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed,…

— Beau Willimon

I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.

— Claire Foy

“To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion—and a horrifying one.”

— David Guterson

“Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure.”

— Frédéric Beigbeder

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. Thats why people are…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Not to be cynical, but love may remain the only source of pain that you may never be able to avoid, as…

— Nkululeko Goqo

When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start…

— Carrie Brownstein

I am not anti-Gwyneth. However, I am against the wholly cynical, harmful machine-pushing of a famous woman - who has endless Hollywood-style…

— Grace Dent

“This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that…

— Mary Balogh

“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and…

— Francois Maspero

“Bitterness is not your friend. It's easy to become cynical, focusing your energies on them and endlessly wondering why they aren't more…

— Rob Bell

When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they…

— Eric Metaxas

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

— John Spence

You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.

— Richard Patrick

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

— Peter Capaldi