Top Cynical Quotes Collection
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I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.Collection: Cynical
The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.Collection: Cynical
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.Collection: Cynical
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.Collection: Cynical
That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.Collection: Cynical
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.Collection: Cynical
My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.Collection: Cynical
'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.Collection: Cynical
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.Collection: Cynical
We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.Collection: Cynical
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.Collection: Cynical
It's so much easier to be cynical.Collection: Cynical
I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it.Collection: Cynical
The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.Collection: Cynical
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.Collection: Cynical
Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.Collection: Cynical
Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.Collection: Cynical
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.Collection: Cynical
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.Collection: Cynical
If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.Collection: Cynical
An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.Collection: Cynical
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.Collection: Cynical
The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.Collection: Cynical
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.Collection: Cynical
If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.Collection: Cynical
The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?Collection: Cynical
You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.Collection: Cynical
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.Collection: Cynical
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.Collection: Cynical
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.Collection: Cynical
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.Collection: Cynical
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.Collection: Cynical
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.Collection: Cynical
I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.Collection: Cynical
I've become less cynical, which is appalling but kind of cool.Collection: Cynical
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.Collection: Cynical
There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.Collection: Cynical
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.Collection: Cynical
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.Collection: Cynical
I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.Collection: Cynical
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.Collection: Cynical
No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.Collection: Cynical
They love too much that die for love.Collection: Cynical
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.Collection: Cynical
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.Collection: Cynical
I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.Collection: Cynical
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.Collection: Cynical
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.Collection: Cynical
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.Collection: Cynical
I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, the scope of my fandom became more myopic; I was focusing on the bands we were touring with, or the bands on the label. And you're always positing yourself in relation to other bands. Since I haven't been playing, I feel a little less cynical. I'm able to seek out music and approach it strictly as a fan.Collection: Cynical