Quotes About Cynicism

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.

Angelica,' said Harry, 'you're unique. I can't think of another female who would stage a farewell scene in a situation like this. In fact, in all my experience--' 'Stretching over many nations and five continents?' 'You know,' said Harry after a moment, 'if you don't get rid of that habit of quoting, people will start to think you might be intelligent.' 'Or,' said Angelica levelly, 'that I'm hiding a heart behind the cynicism.

Experience is terribly important. You'll notice that the congressmen who want to hold up the government are all junior people and new to the game. And of course they will say, 'Oh, it's Washington cynicism, where they all compromise and work out backroom deals.' But that's actually how democracy works." Which

I have to stop being young. I have to get jaded. I have to be cynical. I have to stop speaking. I have to be invisible. He likes things that don't really exist.

No one seemed satisfied, and Wilhelm was especially horrified by the cynicism of successful people. Cynicism was bread and meat to everyone And irony, too. Maybe it couldn't be helped.

Cynicism was bread and meat to everyone. And irony, too. Maybe it couldn't be helped. It was probably even necessary.

An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.

Si quieres gozar con un sentimiento puro las alegrías del amor, aparta de tu corazón el cinismo y la solemnidad. Aquel quiere ahuyentar a Amor, ésta pretende encadenarlo; Cuando el pícaro Dios sonríe nos deja ver cómo se opone a ambos.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

misanthropy.

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

A thief believes everybody steals.

Looking down, the student exclaimed, "Look, there is a $100 bill on the ground." Without a glance down or a break in stride, Fama replied, "No, there isn't. If there were, someone would have picked it up already.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Please forgive me, but I've never had to change my mind so often at such short notice in my whole life. It's quite breathtaking. You see, first I thought you wanted my body, then I thought you wanted my love, then my life even, happily-ever-after and all that sort of thing, and now it turns out it is merely my money. Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you.' ... For what?' ... For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.

A comedian is perhaps the only person who is admired as well as paid handsomely for speaking out the truth honestly in his profession by the people.

Could never find a good person who says that the world is full of good people.