Cynical Quotes · Page 13

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

— Boris Johnson

Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical.

— Greg Davies

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

— Anonymous

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

— Saul Bass

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

— Maya Angelou

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

— Paul Wellstone

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

— Jo Brand

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

— George S. Patton

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all…

— Patton Oswalt

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I…

— Sadie Frost

Ordinarily I would play the Lee Marvin role in 'Avalanche.' You know, the cynical, two-fisted rebel. But I play the president's agent…

— Mike Connors

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

— George Lois

We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical.…

— John Piper

We live in a cynical world now, and it's nice to be part of entertainment that is hopeful and heartfelt and wears…

— Mandy Moore

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion…

— Sebastian Junger

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really…

— David Foster Wallace

Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an…

— Bill Watterson

“The revelation that there was nothing "special" about humanity didn't shock her. Not specifically. She'd always been cynical about that sort of…

— A. Lee Martinez

“I got a call froma cynical young American journalist...You know the sort. He's lived in the Middle East for a little over…

— Amy Mowafi

“Does anyone actually love their job?” “You’re too young to be that cynical.” He chuckles. “Did you at least like the people…

— K.A. Tucker

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored…

— Aravind Adiga

French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it…

— Naomi Wolf

Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make…

— Alain de Botton

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for…

— Conan O'Brien

“I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“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'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

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

— Max Lerner

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

— Oliver Goldsmith

A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration

— Viktor Yushchenko

“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ”

— Stanley Norman Cohen

People feel quite cynical about a lot of TV and what is happening in the world.

— Angela Scanlon

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

— Frederick Lenz

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

— Meghan O'Rourke