Top 718 Cynical Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I think it's dangerous being cynical because you close doors rather than open them.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Alan Alda is a dear friend, nothing like the cynical, bitter Hawkeye.
I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.
People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.
Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.
Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]
I wasn't as cynical about Britain as a lot of friends of mine who are also people of colour.
I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe.
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.
It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh.
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.
On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.
Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.
I'd never allow myself to imagine winning the World Cup. Cynical me!
Some people are very cynical about it, but we're not trying to replace Bob and Terry.
I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.
When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.
America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.
We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
It's hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But 'Rookie Blue' has a pure emotional center that's not cynical.
I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath.
I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.
It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'
I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.
We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.
I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track.
But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world.
People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.
It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical.
This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
