Cynical Quotes · Page 11

All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

— Joni Mitchell

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

— Hermione Lee

Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes.

— John Brunner

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

— Alexander Pushkin

“He could be so cynical. So dry and acidic. As blank as a page. Could he be tender, too?”

— Kelly Creagh

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

— Jack Abramoff

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things … it's not only worth…

— P. J. O'Rourke

What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical…

— Anonymous

“Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action. And whether they'll vote New…

— William Donaldson

I would have never thought in a million years that I would appeal to an Avril fan. But I'm glad that I…

— Butch Walker

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to…

— Jessa Crispin

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's…

— Anonymous

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Umit did not consider himself as a typical teenager. He was rarely skeptical, cynical or critical of anything around him. Those are…

— Raj Doctor

Humans have always preferred to live their lives by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night…

— Anonymous

Sam Kinison was one of the most compulsive people I'd ever seen. James Belushi was that way, and Chris Farley was that…

— Tim Matheson

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the…

— William Hague

I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that…

— Francoise Sagan

Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others…

— Jon Stewart

Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,…

— David Cannadine

Very often I'm told that my heart's cold. That I'm the type to let my eyes speak what my mouth won't. That…

— Needa Muy

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be…

— Richard Ford

“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I'm thankful that we can soon get back to being ungrateful, disillusioned, and cynical.

— Anonymous

Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.

— Conan O'Brien

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.

— Kevin Macdonald

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]

— Mike Ferguson

I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

— Brock Chisholm

Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

— Dov Davidoff

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

— Erica Jong

“I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization.”

— Paul Schrader

I feel like a realist about Hollywood. To be cynical about it is to some degree fair, but I don't think it's…

— Ti West

“If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.”

— Bryant McGill

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

— Vladimir Nabokov

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi