Quotes About Cynicism

Look around you, and take a good whiff. They're all liars here … and every one better than you.

But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes...In life, the monsters win, she told herself

Slynt looked about the solar, at the other Eastwatch men. "Does this boy think I fell off a turnip wagon onto my head?

Expect nothing of Walder Frey, and you will never be surprised.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

S'il n'y avait que des salauds dans le monde, le Réalisme serait aussi le Bon Sens, car le Réalisme est précisément le bon sens des salauds.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

Greater Albania?!, this is a mockery of an unprecedented cynicism.

I knew a man who succeeded in finding an evil word for everything he didn't have and everything he didn't understand.

Why does there have to be a gift for every damn thing?" Eve complained. "Retail conspiracy." Roarke patted her knee. "I bet it is," Eve said darkly. "I just bet it is.

Eve supposed everything about Nadine looked mag, from her sweep of streaky blonde hair to the toes of her jazzed shoes. She had a foxy, angular face, observant green eyes, and a slim body that curved appropriately in her on-camera suit of power red. She was smart, she was sneaky, she was cynical. And for reasons Eve imagined neither of them fully understood, they'd become friends.