George Carlin Quotes

I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

God save me from idealists.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

I'm not Pollyanna.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights.

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.