Quotes About Cynicism

The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually gives me a good advantage.

A healthy skepticism is good, even God-given. However, a need to cynically dismiss anything we cannot personally verify is arrogance. God

Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Cynicism is simply realism with a veneer of irony.

I mentally reviewed possible responses: 1) Sardonic laughter (always good) 2) Rolled eyes and snort of disbelief 3) Sarcastic "You have got to be kidding me." Any

No lo entiendes, Alex? No, creo que no lo entiendes. —¿Qué es lo que no entiendo, Jezzie? Dímelo de una vez. —Siempre estás buscando la parte buena de la gente. Pero no existe.

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

I hate when people say, 'Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.' That's nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that's never made.

If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

As a rule, anyone desirous of an audience, or even a place in society, might profit from the following motto: "If you can't say something positive about humanity, then say something equivocal.

My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult.

Most causes of ignorance can be overcome, if people are willing to learn. Nothing, however, can overcome the toxic confluence of arrogance, narcissism, and cynicism that Americans now wear like full suit of armor against the efforts of experts and professionals.

His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.