Cynical Quotes · Page 11

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

— Brendan Behan

You're cynical and beautiful, you always make a scene. You're monochrome delirious, you're nothing that you seem.

— Goo Goo Dolls

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

— Michael Robotham

Some people are very cynical about it, but we're not trying to replace Bob and Terry.

— Ant McPartlin

I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.

— Carol Burnett

I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot…

— Mary H.K. Choi

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

— Ronald Reagan

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

— David Grann

For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are…

— Anonymous

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment…

— Loretta Napoleoni

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want…

— John Lennon

“Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end…

— Douglas Coupland

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity…

— Shannyn Sossamon

You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot…

— Barack Obama

“In English we say: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. In Naskarian we say: it's not…

— Abhijit Naskar

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from…

— Henry Miller

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on…

— Peter Drucker

Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole…

— Christopher Hibbert

I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation…

— Bill Ayers

Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of…

— Cyril Burt

I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I…

— Jeff Vandermeer

“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble…

— John Grisham

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It…

— Edward Gibbon

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they…

— Ira Glass

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

— Sandra Bernhard

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

I'd never allow myself to imagine winning the World Cup. Cynical me!

— Eoin Morgan

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

— Andre Siegfried

I know that people in the public eye are always being chipped away at by very cynical attitudes in the press.

— Dervla Kirwan

Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.

— Lily Tomlin

Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

— Barack Obama

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

— Stephen Fry

Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

— John Callaway

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.

— Dave Allen

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

— Kamala Harris

I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

— Richelle Mead

Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.

— Andre Siegfried

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

— Lili Taylor