A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“cynicism is the only reasonable response to the antics of humanity.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open… — Tom Tomorrow Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
“Better not to find out whether or not the rumors are true, I say. Better find the other bastard and skin him.” — Angelo Tsanatelis Copy Share Image
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old… — Charles Sheffield Copy Share Image
I fight cynicism. It's too easy. It's really boring. It's much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
.. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Have compassion for everyone you meet even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a… — Dr. Katinka van der Merwe Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“Haven’t you heard of privacy, or were you raised by a tribe of hedonistic Vikings?” — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust. — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full. — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
“I'll graduate high school with a major in Cynicism & a minor in Irritation.” — Chelsea Pitcher Copy Share Image
“I love the great despisers. Man, however, is something that must be overcome.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No matter what happens, good or bad, Romanians will embrace it with hard-core cynicism.” — Maria Elena Sandovici Copy Share Image
“The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
