Quotes About Cynicism

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

The worst cynicism a belief in luck.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat, the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation.

The world doesn't try to screw you; the world is indifferent to you. But people try to screw you, and people need to know when they've picked the wrong guy to screw. And that's me.

Old guys have seen too much, and they trust no one.

Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding.

when they become informed, they become tired like you, jaded.

Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

L'homme qui en toutes choses veut faire profession de bonté se ruine inéluctablement parmi tant d'hommes qui n'ont aucune bonté.

Die Menschen sind undankbar, unbeständig, heuchlerisch, furchtsam und eigennützig.

Ludzie b?d? zawsze dla ciebie ?li, je?eli konieczno?? nie zmusi ich do tego, by byli dobrzy

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

The romantics would call this a love story:the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life.

This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.