Quotes by Cynical We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. Federico Fellini purity-and-innocence mask cynical I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next. Fay Weldon cynical next happens No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. Francois de La Rochefoucauld cynical relationship life The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet. Frank Dane cynical heart love One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. Francois de La Rochefoucauld cynical courage life Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. Frank Lloyd Wright perfectly-good cynical artist Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. Franklin P. Adams cynical psychology worst A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. Francois de La Rochefoucauld cynical first-love long I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole. Frank Zappa cynical civilization thinking I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. Franklin D. Roosevelt cynical political thinking It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life. Franklin D. Roosevelt cynical political people It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny. Franklin D. Roosevelt cynical destiny men Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka slime cynical revolution One should never know too precisely whom one has married Friedrich Nietzsche cynical wedding marriage The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn't care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don't know where to find these people. Do you? Gene Weingarten cynical intelligent people The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. George E. P. Box cynical empowerment management Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it... George Bernard Shaw cynical belief power You must lose a fly to catch a trout. George Herbert cynical greatness inspiration The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. George Lois cynical individuality business The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought. George Santayana cynical self mistake «23456789101112»