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CYNICISM QUOTES

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