(149 quotes found)
“If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.”
George W. Bush
“Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.”
David Wolf
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”
George Carlin
“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?”
George Bernard Shaw
“The opposite of creativity is cynicism”
Esa Saarinen
“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically”
Vincent van Gogh
“I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction”
John Steinbeck
“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
H. G. Wells
“In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it”
Daniel Waters
