Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them. — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit. — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants. — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.' — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who believes, which is kind of funny because I'm cynical, that you can be in love with someone you met… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
“... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it1s cracked up to be. That's why people are… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.” — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
