#cynicism

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

— Oscar Wilde

#nothing

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. ↗

— Jamie Whyte

#cynicism #logic #journalist

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to? ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#memoir

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. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#better #comes #cynicism #down #hard

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disappointments #full #naive

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hypocrisy #outside

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#come #cynicism #dismiss #going #try

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. ↗