(149 quotes found)
“Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.”
Mark Clifton
“I think, weirdly, it almost takes an outsider to be able to - with no cynicism - look at small-town America and realize how fantastic it is.”
Michael Davies
“I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.”
Ken Burns
“I am not the Anne Bancroft interpretation, ... I'm back to doing what I do. Flamboyant, cynical and foul-mouthed, and drinks and smokes and says 'Go (expletive) in your shoes.' Loved it.”
Shirley MacLaine
“No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”
Oscar Wilde
“Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.”
Bill Bailey
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
George Bernard Shaw
“No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”
Lily Tomlin
“A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - "Just as good as the real”
Charles Dudley Warner
