Quotes About Cynical

Diálogo cínico não é humor espirituoso.

The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something.

He was sardonic even in his thoughts these days.

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 love that it's such an uncynical film [Swiss Army Man]. I think it's got a lot of love in there, and I think that's a nice thing in this day and age.

Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick." Until it broke.

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

There wasn't a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just ate its fruits and roamed its wilds and didn't need anyone.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

affirmative action programs that were intended to broaden the leadership population have been so misunderstood and misused (by cynical white male managers far more than by minority applicants, it must be said) that their chief effect has been, perversely, to de-credential those minority achievers who rise entirely through diligence, industry, and learning.

Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action. And whether they'll vote New Labour at the next election. There's no need to be cynical, Susan. Why not? You've got me there.

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.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.