Cynical Quotes - Page 10

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

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.

Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

A thankful heart cannot be cynical.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

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.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.