I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into… — Isaac Goldberg Copy Share Image
“He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays--cynical but hopeful.” — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it,… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“What she tried to label honesty in his candour was probably only a cynical defiance of the laws of right and wrong.” — Saki Copy Share Image
I'm furious and cynical, nasty and sarcastic because I'm frightened, of being betrayed and crushed, disappointed and broken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit… — Woodrow Wyatt Copy Share Image
“I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old… — Charles Sheffield Copy Share Image
“This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
“The aid industry has saved millions of lives, but it is complicated (and maybe this is a necessary evil) by a set… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
Some cynical people may see that the only reason I'm doing something more mainstream is part of a strategy to become more… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
“Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
I realized that every second that I'm alive, the world cares less about me. It's just a very linear, downward progression. And… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called… — George Sanders Copy Share Image
“It may seem seem cynical to see all religion as basically self-serving, and indeed the idea has been put pithily by a… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal. — Ras Kass Copy Share Image
“One is sad when one thinks about life—cynical when one -sees what people make of it.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh. — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet". — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
