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Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
PAUL CHRISTOPHER, The Lucifer Gospel
I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it’s front-page news—trying to figure out who’s dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?
SCARLETT JOHANSSON, PARADE Magazine, Mar. 11, 2007
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
LILLIAN HELLMAN, The Little Foxes
When ... the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed!
SAMUEL ULLMAN, From the Summit of Years, Four Score
Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it's my least favorite quality. It's doesn't lead anywhere. No one 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.
CONAN O'BRIEN, The Tonight Show, Jan. 22, 2010
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly, because it means you don't have to try.
PEGGY NOONAN, Good Housekeeping
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