Famous Quotes & Sayings

Merle Shain

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

Mason Cooley

Cynicism has its own zealots.

John Humphrys

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.

Joe Klein

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Joe Klein

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Elaine Dundy

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Louie Anderson

It's so much easier to be cynical.

Lou Gerstner

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

John Fowles

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

George Lois

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

Emily Mortimer

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

Paul Tillich

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Paul Kagame

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

Matt Smith

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Matt Taibbi

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

Jeremy Paxman

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Glenn Close

I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.

Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

R. C. Sproul

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Paul Christopher

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

Oscar Wilde

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

Thomas Jefferson

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Winston Churchill

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Zach Galifianakis

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

W. Somerset Maugham

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Zadie Smith

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.