Quotes About Cynicism

Moins j'ouvrirai la bouche, moins je ferai figure odieuse et cynique.

Muy pocas veces, en la Historia, los occidentales han dado tales muestras de ceguera, de indiferencia y de cinismo como en la actualidad. Su ignorancia de las realidades es impresionante. Y es así como se alimenta el odio.

And I notice too often that the most unfeeling of people relieve their shuttered hearts by cooing over babies, who when grown , will be the same people exploited or ignored.

In what way am I any better? She is smug. I am cynical. She is puffed-up. I am punctured. I watch her gamely finding the energy to thrash about on life's greasy surface, while I lie paralysed, croaking about another life I think I can see.

Most people probably become more jaded the longer they work in the world of work.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

I've never been an optimist.

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism.

I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

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

Screw me once, shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. Screw me three times...can I at least get a reach around?

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

Just remember that the masses are asses and you'll be just fine.

She could easily have remarked on the heavy skiing weather, or asked how he could even see the road, or complained about the town not getting its ploughs out-- anything at all to show interest or pretend to show interest, the way people talk to make things a little more pleasant-- but no, not Katri Kling. There she stood squinting through her cigarette smoke, her black hair like a mane shrouding her face as she leaned over the table.

Stol på meg, frøken Aemelin, folk som man kan lure, liker man litt mindre.

Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.

You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.