Cynical Quotes
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
Oscar Wilde -
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
J. Paul Getty
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My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.
Robbie Williams Take That -
Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
Nancy Gibbs -
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
Gal Gadot -
I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
Nancy Sinatra -
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
Rabih Alameddine -
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
Garry Shandling
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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou -
I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.
Zac Goldsmith -
I'm a very jaded and cynical person.
Ed Helms -
I'm not cynical.
Laura Schlessinger -
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
H. L. Mencken -
I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
Patrick Lencioni -
Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
Yair Lapid -
Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
Gary Lineker -
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
Erica Jong -
Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
Bette Midler -
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
Pankaj Mishra
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The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.
Fleur East -
If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.
Andrew Cuomo -
I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page newstrying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?
Scarlett Johansson -
There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.
Quentin Tarantino