Top Cynical Quotes

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.

Cynical Definition

(a.) Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.

(a.) Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.

(a.) Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.

(a.) Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.

Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather...

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come b...

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Americans are cool if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses’ ears acc...

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

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of thei...

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.