Cynical Quotes · Page 12

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

— John Brunner

“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

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

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

— Erica Jong

“I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization.”

— Paul Schrader

I'm thankful that we can soon get back to being ungrateful, disillusioned, and cynical.

— Anonymous

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with…

— Jeff Koons

At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must…

— Arundhati Roy

In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are…

— Richard Bach

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably…

— Bertrand Russell

Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us,…

— William Shatner

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man…

— Bertrand Russell

“I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I think the audiences in Chicago are really open. They're engaged and eager, and they don't feel cynical to me. Sometimes in…

— Joe Mantello

“People didn't like having to come up with something smart or helpful or sensitive to say, and they weren't intelligent enough to…

— John Corey Whaley

Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky.…

— Chris Pratt

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent…

— Eric Fischl

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them,…

— Ayn Rand

Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to…

— Nick Cave

Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are…

— Richard Branson

I never expected Star Wars to all of a sudden become like The Matrix and change perspective on things. I respected it…

— Kyle Newman

The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say,…

— Justin Trudeau

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

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Mike Ferguson

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

— Rajkumar Hirani

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

— Yue Minjun

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

— Brett Goldstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Greg Fitzsimmons

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

— Andre Siegfried