Cynical Quotes

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Friendship, Time

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin

Person, Inside, Idealist

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Thinking, Wish

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley

Best, Nothing, Situation

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton

Often, Watch, Lack

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan

Respect, Wonderful, Rather

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Hope, Future

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
Lily Tomlin

Enough, Become, Keep

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
Ben Affleck

Hope, Fun, Woman

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 a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset Maugham

Good, Truth, Tell

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John W. Gardner

Men, Live, Integrity

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Richard M. Nixon

Politics, Business, Dirty

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
Boris Johnson

Supporting, Cameron, David

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

Hard, Pretty, Days

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.
John Boorman

Easy, Film, Audience

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.
Daniel Waters

Evil, Cruel, Allow

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.
Hugh Jackman

Business, Sports, Bad

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
Mitch Albom

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.
Tracey Ullman

Disrespect, Stuff, Aware

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

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
Jo Brand

Reason, Sure, Point

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
Paul Wellstone

Future, Stand, Belong

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
William Hague

Politics, Same, Again

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
Kevin Costner

Good, Women, Men

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 only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
Lionel Trilling

Heart, Living, State

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
Nancy Sinatra

Cruel, Finally, Proven

I'm not cynical.
Laura Schlessinger

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
Sun Myung Moon

Love, Children, Feeling

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
Joseph Pulitzer

Time, Press, Mercenary

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.
Graham Norton

Why, Guess, Comedian

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