George Meredith Quotes

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

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.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

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

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

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

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

Most people are not intellectuals — a fact that intellectuals have terrible trouble coming to terms with.

Skepticism about authority turns into corrosive cynicism.

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

England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.

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

Well, I won't say I'm cynical. I'd say I'm pragmatic.

I'm not Pollyanna.

I don't read too much into things and look at social media. It's all a load of crap.

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