Cynical Quotes

497 Cynical quotes by 414 unique authors

False hope really makes you cynical. — Bill Maher
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing… — William Duncan Silkworth
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced… — Ernest Gruening
You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the… — Ernst Zundel
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the… — Lionel Trilling
But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it.… — Shannyn Sossamon
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge. — Leonard Maltin
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right… — John Powell
A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration — Viktor Yushchenko
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't… — Rita Dove
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and… — Theodore Dalrymple
As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph… — Dee Bradley Baker
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical. — Amy Ray
If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have… — Moby
I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising evidence… — Larry Diamond
I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees. — J Mascis
Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour the heart that… — Michelle Cruz
Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can… — Hillary Clinton
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to… — Alain de Botton
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. — Max Lerner
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves. — Indira Gandhi
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking… — Lance Armstrong

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