Cynical Quotes

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

A thankful heart cannot be cynical.

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.

I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it.

A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.

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 over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

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

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.