Cynical Quotes - Page 4

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.

The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.

I'm a cynical idealist.

Join the army and see the next world.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.