Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

Skepticism about authority turns into corrosive cynicism.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

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.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

God save me from idealists.

It's so much easier to be cynical.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

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

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.