Quotes About Cynicism

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.

I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section.

I've nothing against people. Just a***oles. But then, most people are.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

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

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

...the player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.

I have a limited amount of faith in humans as a species, and have little problem imagining someone that petty and insane." Jackson

I have a limited amount of faith in humans as a species, and have little problem imagining someone that petty and insane.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

When Mantle faced the cameras for the last time a month before his death, he was a husk of a man, shrunken by cancer. The stiff brim of his 1995 All-Star Game cap dwarfed his brow. There was no Mantle Roll. He looked straight into the cameras and told us all, 'Don't be like me.' The transformation of The Mick parallels the transformation of American culture from willful innocence to knowing cynicism. To tell his story is to tell ours.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

I don't assume anything about people, and I sure don't trust 'em. Just when you think you know a guy, he turns out to be a liar, a fraud, or a backstabber.

Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.

How much he could believe of it, he did not know; for he did not know the man, and he had learned to suspect that every civilized man was a liar and a cheat until he had proved himself otherwise.