Best Cynicism Qoutes
368 Cynicism quotes by 300 unique authors
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It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
— Max Lucado
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
— Matthew McConaughey
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
— Marshall McLuhan
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
— H. L. Mencken
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
— Bette Midler
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
— George Jean Nathan
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
— Conan O'Brien
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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
— Barack Obama
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
— Yoko Ono
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
— Alexander Payne
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Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in…
— Rick Perry
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No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
— Plautus
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Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out…
— Josh Radnor
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
— Will Rogers
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I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
— Chloe Sevigny
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
— Serj Tankian
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
— Twyla Tharp
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea…
— Leon Trotsky
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When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then,…
— Samuel Ullman
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