443 Quotes About Cynicism

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

Simplicity is the sign of a loving and alive mind, whereas cynicism is the sign of a dull and mechanical mind.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.