Cynical Quotes
497 quotes by 426 authors
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even…
— Honore de Balzac
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
— Honore de Balzac
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It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
— Brendan Behan
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been…
— John Berger
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical…
— Allan Bloom
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I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need…
— Ben Affleck
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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
— Bono
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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically…
— John Boorman
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be…
— Ray Bradbury
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I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
— Jo Brand
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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical.…
— Mitch Albom
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Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.
— David Byrne
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
— Lord Byron
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I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.
— Steve Carell
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
— Albert Camus
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
— Eddie Cantor
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who Wrote These Cynical Quotes
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