Cynical Quotes

• I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Special
  • Cynical

• Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

  

  Minna Antrim
  • Experience
  • Teacher
  • Being

• I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Cynical
  • Epiphany

• People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • People
  • Working
  • Pessimistic

• When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

  

  William Hague
  • Men
  • Wonder
  • Lying

• Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. A cynical but perhaps fair assessment

  

  Mike Ferguson
  • Events
  • Fairs
  • Assessment

• England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • England
  • Cynical
  • Like I Am

• No matter how hard I try, there's a cynical corner of my mind where everything is an act. People are game pieces. Information is currency.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Game
  • Information
  • Currency

• Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I'm sure this is true in some cases, but on the whole I can't accept this as a vision of art. There's something so cynical about assuming your audience is unintelligent or that artists shouldn't care about their viewers.

  

  Dario Robleto
  • Art
  • Reflection
  • Assuming

• I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

  

  Shaun Cassidy
  • Fun
  • Risk
  • Married

• I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • President
  • Determine

• I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don't have to justify it. You don't have to fight for it.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Hate
  • Fighting

• Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Giving
  • Laughing
  • Cynical

• I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who... A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Desire
  • Succeed

• At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Views
  • Concerned
  • Cynical

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