Quotes About Cynicism

I'm not a child. Don't talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you're worse. You're an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)

I'm not putting my faith or life in anyone's hands. All that ever got me was screwed, and my ass is currently sore from it. (Wren) Nice imagery there, tiger. Graphic. Ever think of writing children's books? (Fury)

You don't like people who have money, do you? (Astrid) I'm not prejudiced against anyone, princess. I hate everyone equally. (Zarek)

It's good to see your friends happy, isn't it? (Nick) How would I know? I have no friends. People basically suck and all friends will screw you over in the end. Take my word for it. (Savitar) Then why am I here? (Nick) Hell if I know. (Savitar)

You'd trust me that easily? (Shahara) Hell no. The only thing I trust in life is to get fucked over by everyone around me. (Syn)

you're so full of shit, you ought to be a cow manure

People suck. (Nero)

Ash sarcastically rang an invisible bell with his hand. Ding, ding, ding. Give that boy a trophy.

And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us and the humans as cannon fodder to protect himself? Really, Kyros, put down the crack pipe...or go write children's fantasy novels. I'll bet you even know exactly who conspired to kill Kennedy, huh? I'm sure the money from D.B. Cooper is what financed your stunning collection of furniture. (Danger)

Just in my experience, all people do is take. None of them give a damn about helping someone else. (Aiden) And sometimes people can surprise you. (Leta) Yeah. You're right. I'm constantly amazed by the unprovoked treachery they're capable of. (Aiden)

Great, just great. The only thing to make him a worse asshole would be to kick a puppy.' (Nathan)

People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you're nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)

What are you, like a rent-a-white-knight? (Abbie)

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)

he. 'I have no doubt that some of them are honest enough by their own lights, that they are motivated by what they see as a genuine desire to change the political system. But on the other hand, I know as a fact that many of them are not, that they are merely cynical opportunists with an eye to their own gain.

The essence of dietrologia is that it dismisses the notion that anyone could act purely for reasons of moral conviction.

The sadness of evil men is that they believe no truth that does not paint the world in their colours. Eric Ambler The Schirmer Inheritance

I think it is a medically proven fact that the older one gets, the more quick one is two spots conspiracies. Skulduggery. Cloak and dagger stuff.

Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.