Quotes About Cynicism

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

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

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

False hope really makes you cynical.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)

Cynicism is a disease. Optimism is the cure.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before.

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.