Quotes About Cynicism

If sarcasm were gold, she would have just made her fortune.

Must you always see the dark side of everything?' Julia said. 'Someone has to,' Jackson said. 'Yes, but does it have to be you?' Apparently, yes. It did.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Statism ends with an eye roll.