I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.
Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica. 'No,' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.
A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
A cynic is a person who sees things as it is; he has no concept of future or past.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.
