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  • Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

  • Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

    "Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend".
  • We have reached a very cynical era of comedy. The Muppets have proven, for 40 years, that you can get laughs without ever doing it at someone else's expense, and I think that that's a really important thing for kids to realize.

    Kids   Thinking   Years  
    Source: collider.com
  • If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  
  • The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

    Dream   Women   Giving  
    H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.9, 谷月社
  • Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

  • The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

  • When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

    "Raising Good Men". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.
  • We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.

    Eye   Men   Views  
    Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”
  • The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

    Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage
  • IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.

    Source: themuslimtimes.info
  • I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • All heiresses are beautiful.

    John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”
  • Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

    Power   Cynical   Belief  
    "Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World, Volume 27 (The World (18 July 1894))". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1931.
  • The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

  • Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)

    Believe   Boys   Giving  
    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.286, Bantam
  • One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

    Success   Business   Keys  
    "Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump" by Maria Konnikova, bigthink.com. 2017.
  • There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

    "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.
  • I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books.

    Book   Mean   People  
    Source: bookpage.com
  • There are certain reactions that you aren't allowed to show in Berlin, for example that you feel offended. If you do, the best-case scenario is a sympathetic article along the lines of: Nice guy, but he's not up to it. The alternative is to don a suit of armor and become cynical. But that's not healthy either: Cynicism is the worst characteristic a politician can have. That's why you have to have an internal balance in Berlin, so you can stay true to yourself. And I have that.

    Nice   Guy   Cynical  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world with it. Romy did all those writing sessions. I would love to do what Romy's done and experience that other side of the pop machine. It sounds terrifying and, at times, a little bit soulless. That's a real pet peeve of mine, when people talk about songwriting in a cynical way. But having said that I still want to do it, just to know what it's like.

    Source: www.thefader.com
  • Every country has the government it deserves.

    Lettres et Opuscules Inedits vol. 1, no. 53 (1851) (letter of 15 Aug. 1811)
  • When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

    People   Cynical   Looks  
  • If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

  • You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

    Eye   Cynical   Negative  
    "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012.
  • This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.

  • 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.

    Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.
  • Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

    Marriage   Men   Wife  
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