Quotes About Cynicism

In his own little hometown, they'd been suspicious of ideas: he'd grown up surrounded by a kind of resigned cynicism, though he'd been sure the world could be better.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

In a curious twist, I realize I always knew TV news seemed full of shit, but I never knew it was, in fact, full of shit.

It was a maxim with Foxey—our revered father, gentlemen—"Always suspect everybody."

He had used the word [humbug] in its Pickwickian sense.

The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that we know it is all meaningless, and say so, while they know it equally and will never say so.

It's humbug still!" said Scrooge. "I won't believe it.

Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch.

There was a moral infection of clap-trap in him.

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

Pessimists — Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust.

A political convention is just not a place from which you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

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

I'm allergic to stupidity — I break out in sarcasm.

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world? Woman: Really? Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

It was too bitter a truth even for irony.

malgré tout leur fameux cynisme (ou peut-être à cause de lui), les Sarantins étaient presque toujours d'une nature émotive et passionnée, comme si vivre au centre du monde donnait du relief et de l'importance à chaque événement de leur existence.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.