Cynical Quotes · Page 8

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

— Lili Taylor

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

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's…

— Tony Fernandes

“I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I…

— Vinnie Tesla

The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend…

— Sam Endicott

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different…

— Kate DiCamillo

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the…

— Margaret Mead

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened…

— Josh Radnor

It's hard to portray your personality in 140 characters. And so, at times, I tend to be very cynical. And I don't…

— Ayesha Curry

So crucify the ego, before its far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you…

— Maynard James Keenan

Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects…

— Paul Goodman

EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are…

— Ellen Malcolm

We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand,…

— Francis Schaeffer

It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"…

— George Carlin

I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world…

— Oliver Sim

By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then…

— Ayana Mathis

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

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

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

— Greg Fitzsimmons

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

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Bryant McGill

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

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

— Brett Goldstein