Cynicism Quotes · Page 9

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not…

— Anonymous

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

— Marianne Williamson

“... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

— George Berkeley

“Doing things for others gives you a lovely glow." "So does port," I said cynically.”

— Dodie Smith

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

— Anonymous

“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.”

— Abhaidev

“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act…

— Rob Brezsny

“Did you have friend?" "I've read about them, but I don't believe they exist." "Your cynicism is amazing.”

— Jodi Meadows

There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're…

— Artie Shaw

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a…

— Helen Keller

I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother…

— Carol Burnett

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone…

— Anton Chekhov

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

“I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten…

— John Fowles

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call…

— Anonymous

“When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when…

— Idries Shah

“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that…

— Nevada Barr

When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this…

— Bell Hooks

“How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that…

— Irène Némirovsky

“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds…

— M. John Harrison

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

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

— Anonymous

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

— Bergen Evans

“We began in error, so obviously the ensuing events left us in error, too.”

— Wataru Watari

“grown up surrounded by a kind of resigned cynicism,”

— Celeste Ng

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

— Jon Snow

Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

— John Callaway

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

— Collis Potter Huntington

“He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.”

— Meredith Duran

“There are those who always think the worst of people. That's because they are the worst of people.”

— Marsha Hinds

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

— Glen Cook

“Divide and rule, weaken and conquer, love and enslave, these are three tenets of politics”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.”

— Jenny Holzer

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

— Jesse Jackson

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

— Anna Funder

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

— Cecil B. DeMille

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

— James Keller