Cynical Quotes · Page 8

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

— Fred Armisen

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.

— Nancy Mitford

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

— Bell Hooks

“I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“His more cynical side suspected that humans had never really needed an excuse to pick on other humans.”

— Christopher Nuttall

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.

— George C. Wolfe

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

“This is poetry. You’re writing about Heaven’s Gate and the Caribou Herd, but what comes across is loneliness, displacement, angst, and a…

— Dan Simmons

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

— Henry Miller

“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

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without…

— Norman Mailer

Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a…

— Bun E. Carlos

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with…

— Indira Gandhi

“[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

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

— Cyril Burt

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

“I believe in God because only an idiot can look at the complex balance of nature and believe that has not been…

— Ted Dekker

“There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative.…

— Steven Erikson

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

— Ira Glass

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was…

— Mike Birbiglia

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

— Yoko Ono

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

— Armando Iannucci

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

— Spike Milligan

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

— Marg Helgenberger

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

— Erica Jong

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

— James Russell Lowell

I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do.

— Carol Burnett

“I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft.”

— Tennessee Williams

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

— Kurt Russell

I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though.

— Les Dawson

Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

— Tom Robbins

It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

— Andy Dunn

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm cynical about the type of girl that swirls in the Hollywood community.

— Shane Black

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

— Daniel Waters

“Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.”

— Meghan Ciana Doidge