Quotes About Cynicism

Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Jonathan Swift

There is an entry in Baudelaire's Journal Intime that is fearful in the precision of its cynicism: "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time.

It won't surprise you to hear that I'm a skeptical person. I don't even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.

and in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Cynicism is boringly fashionable. I didn't think you would be afraid to say mankind is worth fighting for.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

Hope is forgivable when you're young, isn't it? With no suspicion of irony, without a soupçon of cynicism, hope lures with its siren song.

Most people need some sort of illusion to help 'em along … but that knocks one pretty hard, doesn't it?

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

I have seen a billion rom-coms, but the majority I've been hate-watching on purpose, to laugh at them and not with them.