Quotes About Cynicism

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

And he enjoyed listening to Caramon's gossip. Raistlin enjoyed proving to his own satisfaction that his fellow mortals were fools and idiots, while Caramon took immense pleasure in bringing a smile - albeit a sardonic smile - to his twin's lips.

L'ironie dénonce, le cynisme autorise.

What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor and the acquisitiveness that is supposed to be realism are making us forget the origins of the greatness we lay claim to - power and wealth as secondary consequences of the progress of freedom, or, as Whitman would prefer, Democracy?

Anger and self-righteousness combined with cynicism about the world as he or she sees it are the marks of the ideologue. There is always an element of nostalgia, too, because the ideologue is confident that he or she is moved by a special loyalty to a natural order, or to a good and normative past, which others defy or betray.

Suspiró, abrumado por los niveles de imbecilidad que padecía el mundo.

This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of seizing glory any way they ca, even if to reach it they must climb a mountain of pachydermatous shit.

El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas

L'Occident a vendu des armes aux deux camps et nous, nous avons été assez bêtes pour rentrer dans ce jeu cynique...huit ans de guerre pour rien! Alors maintenant l'état donne des noms de martyrs aux rues pour flatter les familles des victimes. Ills trouvent peut-être ainsi un sens à toute cette absurdité.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

He wears the bemused expression of a guy who knows how bad it can get, who's always looking and waiting for the other shoe to drop.

She was an old woman who thought all evil of those she did not know, and all good of those whom she did know....

She thought so badly of men and women generally, and of Mr Broune and herself as a man and a woman individually, that she was unable to conceive the possibility of such a sacrifice.

There's nothing of honesty left in politics," said Mr. Bonteen, declaring that he was sick of the life.

There are men who rarely think well of women, — who hardly think well of any woman. They put their mothers and sisters into the background, — as though they belonged to some sex or race apart, — and then declare to themselves and to their friends that all women are false, — that no woman can be trusted unless her ugliness protect her;

I don't think half so much of Parliament folk as some do. They're for promising everything before they's elected; but not one in twenty of 'em is as good as his word when he gets there.

Gerstenfeld somt eerst enkele redenen op waarom het leven in het algemeen niet de moeite waard is geleefd te worden, mensen zijn wolven op twee benen, en gaat dan in op zijn eigen situatie, die niet bijzonder dramatisch is maar die hij kennelijk toch voor uitzichtloos houdt: lusteloosheid en weerzin spelen hem parten.

I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.