(149 quotes found)
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“I'm a hopeful cynic.”
Tracy Chapman
“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
Leon Trotsky
“The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.”
Matt LeBlanc
“Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?”
Eliza Cook
“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.”
Samuel Ullman
“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
Lillian Hellman
“They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.”
Jay Carr
“No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up”
Lily Tomlin
