Quotes with cynical

  • It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
  • If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
  • Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
  • The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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  • Walter Bagehot A cold, and cynical wisdom particularly disapproves of most men's best actions.
    Biographical Studies (1881)
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Bun E. Carlos Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Erica Jong Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Ray Bradbury If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Brendan Behan It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
    Brendan Behan: interviews and recollections (1982)
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Ann Beattie It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Allan Bloom Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • John Berger The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Beau Willimon The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • 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.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • George S. Patton Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Lionel Trilling We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • William 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.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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