Cynical Quotes · Page 9

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

— Yue Minjun

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

— Rajkumar Hirani

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

— Mike Ferguson

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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 basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization.”

— Paul Schrader

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

— Erica Jong

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…

— John Boorman

There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world.

— Lolly Adefope

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve…

— Nancy Mitford

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why…

— Erica Jong

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it…

— Seymour Hersh

Some people might have different ideas about what progress looks like, and some are cynical and place their short-term political interests ahead…

— Valerie Jarrett

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that…

— Anonymous

I try and find and access the parts of myself that still blindly believe and have faith in a lot of things.…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“Good gracious, she could have remained faithful to him in spirit while she was being unfaithful to him in the flesh. That…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The…

— Nicholas Stoller

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll…

— Michelle Forbes

Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work…

— Mary Pipher

You do the one film that you think is terrible, but it's a big studio film and you hope you'll get another…

— Emily Mortimer

Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to…

— John Carmack

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

— Dov Davidoff

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

— Brock Chisholm

“He could be so cynical. So dry and acidic. As blank as a page. Could he be tender, too?”

— Kelly Creagh

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

— Alexander Pushkin

Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes.

— John Brunner

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

— Jack Abramoff

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

— Tucker Carlson

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

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

— Bob Dylan

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

— Ty Segall