Cynicism Quotes - Page 3

• Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Jaded

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• I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Integrity, Chloe, Proud

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Love, Wisdom, Truth

  The Little Foxes (1939) act 1

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• I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

  Patricia Ireland

  Thinking, Optimism, Being Positive

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• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Cynical, Criticism, Doe

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

  Robert Teeter

  Taken, Decision, Accountability

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• I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

  Graham Coxon

  Drinking, Thinking, Shoulders

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

  Tom Robbins

  Sexy, Mean, Cynical

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

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• I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

  Donald Sutherland

  Thinking, Acting

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• Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

  Shawn Colvin

  Views, Things In Life, Long

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• The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Civilization, Failing, Reason

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

  Rob Morrow

  People, Hollywood, Good Times

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've never seen that lead to anything other than cynicism and hundreds of dead flowers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Mistake, Flower, Creativity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Truth Is, Regions, Greater

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.336, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Power, Eulogy, Wealth

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.71, University of Georgia Press

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• Happiness too is inevitable.

  Albert Camus

  Idealism, Inevitable

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• I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.

  Dylan Moran

  Healthy, Needs, Injection

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• 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...

  George Bernard Shaw

  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.

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• Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Rejection, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

  Ewan McGregor

  Fighting, People, Being Positive

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• There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

  Craig Ferguson

  Spiritual, Believe, Joy

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• Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

  Kate Spade

  Aphrodisiac, Speech, Graciousness

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• For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

  Edward Dowden

  Littles, Poet, Humour

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• And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

  Alan Thicke

  Darkness, Elements, Littles

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