Cynicism Quotes · Page 11

blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.

— Louis MacNeice

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

— Lauren Willig

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

— Alexander Payne

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

— Jay Carr

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

— Evan Esar

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

— Sarah Polley

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

— Sandra Bernhard

“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he…

— Terry Pratchett

“The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.”

— Richard Russo

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

“A loner, by nature, burdens no one with their existence. By avoiding entanglements with others, they cause no harm. We are extremely…

— Wataru Watari

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in…

— Sydney J. Harris

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and…

— Joe Biden

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“After I charge their brains with my own brand of skeptical electricity, I unleash them—the New Cynics—upon a world that is slowly…

— Kristopher Jansma

Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away…

— Zubin Mehta

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude…

— Napoleon Hill

On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent…

— D. Todd Christofferson

Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that…

— Michael Lerner

“I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to…

— Kenneth Cain

I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I…

— Jerry Saltz

Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think…

— Mick Hucknall

I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they…

— Eva Hart

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

— Grace Dunham

We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics.

— Hilary Benn

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

— Craig Ferguson

“You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It's astonishing what a number of churches and idiots there are in the world.”

— Karel Čapek

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

— Jewel

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

— Alain de Botton

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

— William Shakespeare

“Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.”

— Chris Brady

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

— Vachel Lindsay

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

— Josh Lanyon

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

— Marya Mannes

“The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took”

— Dennis Lehane

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

— Andre Breton

Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.

— Dean McLaughlin

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange]…

— Benedict Cumberbatch