38 Quotes on Cynicism

• Spontaneous gratitude blossoms in momentary glimpses--the acknowledgment of life's fleeting gifts ignites joy more profound than prep ohreds.

  Author: Amarith Huet

• In the silent hum of inarticulate truths lies the framework of profound connections--those felt but never labeled allow the heart to see beyond the limitations of tongue.

  Author: Elena Maveris

• Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  Author: H. Wells

• Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• I have no cynicism at all.

  Author: Antony Sher

• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

  Author: George Shaw

• I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

  Author: Chloe Sevigny

• People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

  Author: Rick Perry

• The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

  Author: Yoko Ono

• In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  Author: Barack Obama

• 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.

  Author: Reinhold Niebuhr

• It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

  Author: George Nathan

• It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

  Author: Rob Morrow

• Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

  Author: George Meredith

• 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.

  Author: W. Maugham

• Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

  Author: Russell Lynes

• My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

  Author: Ted Koppel

• I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

  Author: Paul Horgan

• Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

  Author: Lillian Hellman

• Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

  Author: William Greider

• This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

  Author: Susan Estrich

• For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

  Author: Edward Dowden

• I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.

  Author: Joe Dante

• I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

  Author: Graham Coxon

• Cynicism is intellectual treason.

  Author: Norman Cousins

• Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

  Author: Kenneth Clark

• If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

  Author: George Bush

• Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

  Author: Jeff Bridges

• Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

  Author: Sandra Bernhard

• Cynicism is the humour of hatred.

  Author: Herbert Beerbohm

• I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

  Author: Carl Barks

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