Quotes About Cynicism

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

We are ill appreciated, we cynics; on my honor if cynicism be not the highest homage to virtue there is, I should like to know what virtue wants? We sigh over her absence and we glorify her perfections. But Virtue is always a trifle stuck-up, you know, and she is very difficult to please.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

There's a sucker born every minute.

The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

Why is he being so nice? He is friendly--too friendly. No one is nice just for the sake of it these days, not unless he wants something.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Once we had the Protestant ascendancy,' Cor Mogaill said. 'Now it's the Catholic ascendancy. And they both rule with the same mixture of self-interest and cynicism.

Denna lifted her glass in a salute. "To the gullibility of the well-educated.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Life sucks. This is news why?

No, there is nothing people will not do, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you will be.

Op die manier is de elektrische stoel uitgevonden. Uitgedokterd door Edison die de gevaren van de wisselstroom wilde tonen en zijn idee vervolgens verkocht aan de Sing-sing-gevangenis waarop het tot op de dag van vandaag wordt gebruikt. Heerlijk, vind je niet? Als de wereld niet zo prachtig was, zouden we allemaal nog cynici worden.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.

He wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the United States fought World War II to rescue the Jews and keep the world safe for democracy, that Jesus and the double feature are coming back. But I'm no Panglossian American.

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

The Duke of Windsor is there, together with such other losers as General Howard-Vyse and General Gamelin.14 All look entirely inadequate to the cynicism, efficiency, brutality, and bloody-mindedness that will be required to win the war. As

The Duke of Windsor is there, together with such other losers as General Howard-Vyse and General Gamelin.14 All look entirely inadequate to the cynicism, efficiency, brutality, and bloody-mindedness

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.