Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Gervais

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

Ulysses S. Grant

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

Sadie Frost

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

Jesse Jackson

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Jewel

Cynicism is for lightweights.

Hillary Clinton

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Ezra Klein

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.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

Gregory David Roberts

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

Gore Vidal

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

Gore Vidal

Realism has always been called cynicism.

Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Erica Jong

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a cynical idealist.

Fay Weldon

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

Robert Anton Wilson

Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... idealists regard everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Wilson

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

Yannick Noah

Cynicism is not a good energy for me.

It was a shock, yes, and it really woke me up to how cynical the music industry was,

It's a cynical city, ... We had to prove ourselves first.

It's a fairly cynical effort on his part to distract the public from what's really the issue and that's the fact that the redistricting process in Florida is broken, and voters aren't being treated fairly.

It's easy to be cynical and sit on the sidelines and throw stones at the commission. It's easier to do that if you don't participate.

Everyone in LA is cynical and spoiled and seen it all.

Hanan Ashrawi

a very cynical and willful manipulation of an extremely volatile situation.

Nancy Mitford

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.

Paul Thomas

He probably underestimated how cynical people are about politicians' switching parties or deciding they don't want to serve after being elected.

H. L. Mencken

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

Grant Heslov

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

Graham Norton

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

Kevin Spacey

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

Emile M. Cioran

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.