Quotes About Cynicism

I've got nothing left to lose. Nothing can hurt me anymore. My life is nothing but comedy." - The Joker

Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

It's not so much that I am a cynic, I just might take a bit too much pleasure in demonstrating why things aren't as rosy as they seem.

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.

and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose.

Your cynicism is simply a pose.

I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn't, because none of them had had any hearts at all.

I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.

People suck. They do stupid things and they're not nice. The end.

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples who find life grey, and can't stick each other at any price.

Especially if the girl he had earmarked was one of these tough modern thugs, all lipstick and cool, hard, sardonic eyes, as she probably was.

Tut, tut!" said Psmith severely. "And, in case the expression is new to you, what I mean is 'Pooh, pooh!

Mr. Chester, standing near the door with Ann, eyed the assemblage with the genial contempt of a large dog for a voluble pack of small ones.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

Nobody's out to save the world, because nobody gives a damn about the world, that was just a bunch of goofy kids talking.