Quotes About Cynicism

Beware of those who don't like bread and children.

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

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.

Never give a sucker an even break.

La paciencia y la desgracia, el valor y la muerte, la resignación y lo inevitable tienden a aparecer juntos. Por lo general, la indiferencia ante la vida surge en el momento en que es imposible conservarla»… ¡Qué cínico parece!

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world.

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit, " which was and is awesome.)

Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

L'adulte ne croit pas au Père Noël. Il vote.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

What do you take me for? Do you think I was born yesterday? Do you think I have never dealt in eggs?

You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies." Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries.

Don't go all unicorns pooping rainbows on us.

one thing I know about people from deep personal experience: they're happy to jump on the hate train if it makes them feel like fucking heroes.

The world was too full of wastrels and waifs, sycophants and spies—all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect.