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I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not... I was a really cynical child.

I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

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

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

I think we sort of are all fans of love really, if you're not then you're too cynical aren't you?

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

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

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

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

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

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