Quotes with cynicism

  • And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

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  • Alan Thicke And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Lillian Hellman Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Graham Greene Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • H.G. Wells Cynicism is humor in ill health.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • George Meredith Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Norman Cousins Cynicism is intellectual treason.
    Human Options (1981)
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Oscar Wilde Cynicism is knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
    Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
    English actor and theatre manager (1852 - 1917)
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  • Russell Lynes Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Ralph B. Perry I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
    Ralph B. Perry
     
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  • Paul Auster I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • David Wolf Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
    David Wolf
     
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  • Barack Obama In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
    Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Henry Lewis Stimson The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
    Henry Lewis Stimson
     
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  • George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Camille Paglia We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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