Cynicism Quotes

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

We have the best government that money can buy.

If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.

You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness