Best Cynicism Quotes
368 Cynicism quotes by 300 unique authors
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A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.
— Evan Esar
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Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.
— Evan Esar
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The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To…
— Charles Eisenstein
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My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.
— Anna Faris
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
— Henry Rollins
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People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna…
— Bill Nye
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I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
— Donald Sutherland
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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
— Anna Funder
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we…
— Ben Okri
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Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of…
— Robert Teeter
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I…
— Laura Marling
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Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck…
— Mike Royko
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
— Patricia Ireland
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I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is…
— Howard Schultz
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A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
— Cecil B. DeMille
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A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up…
— Unknown Author
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All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.
— Douglas Horton
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In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
— Jean Renoir
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Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
— Douglas Horton
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The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.
— Douglas Horton
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The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number…
— Garrison Keillor
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
— Andre Breton
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Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
— Unknown Author
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