#Cynicism

"Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn."

"By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying."

"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."

"…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed..."

"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."

"I am a citizen of the world."

"Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed."

"Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

"...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since."

"I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married."

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

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

"I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor."

"Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on."

"Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God."

"In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success"

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

"As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?"

"All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

"Cynicism is humor in ill health."