Quotes About Cynicism

That's unbelievably cruel." "Nothing cruel's unbelievable.

I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

Tohr laughed softly. Yeah, I'm not much for the emotive crap either-Ouch! Wellsie, what the he*l?

He was the one doing the Dr. Phil bullshit— Okaaaaaaaaaay

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land but the newspapers preen in virtue - Throughout the world the left & right the east & west, are both vicious

As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

U was zawsze ironia i ironia.

The Rebel's bad attitude is a form of protection Take a look at J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from his prep school for academic failure. Bright and sensitive, he narrates his story in a cynical, jaded voice. Holden longs for a beautiful and innocent world. He cannot bear the hypocrisy of the those around him; his attitude is an attempt to protect himself from pain and disappointment.

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.