Cynical Quote by Franklin P. Adams Download Open image “Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.” — Franklin P. Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynical Psychology Suspicion Worst
When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Always suspect everybody. That's the maxim to go through life with! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
“Health is the thing that makes you feel like that now is the best time of the year.” — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image