Quotes About Cynicism

Quizá me haya acostumbrado tanto a las mentiras, que la verdad me suena indecentemente falsa. Pero bueno.

At times, your cynicism borders on impudence.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism, without the coxcomb's feathers.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. " Chantal

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

No soy uno de esos cínicos que cree que el amor no existe, porque lo he visto en otras personas. Pero yo no puedo sentirlo. Ni por una mujer ni por nadie. Nunca he amado.

she was afraid she might be turning into one of those cynical people who hug old bitterness like a treasured bone to be gnawed over forever.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.

I think, This will be the last horrible thing I have to go through, until I meet someone else and the whole travesty begins again . I myself bear a sign that reads DON´T DATE ME, I CHAIN-SMOKE, I´M BITTER, AND I INCLUDE GRABBY TODDLER, and this has dramatically decreased my social life. I have resigned myself to a lifetime of jalapeño poppers and cheap wine and Frasier reruns.