Best Cynical Quotations
497 Cynical quotes by 414 unique authors
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The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a…
— George Santayana
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A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
— Andre Siegfried
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Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
— Andre Siegfried
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We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
— Max Stirner
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Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.
— Edmund White
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Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty…
— Woodrow Wyatt
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Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
— W.C. Fields
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Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us, they're the things…
— William Shatner
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell…
— Steve Buscemi
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Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!
— Ed Harris
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If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!
— Emm Gryner
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If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.
— Andrew Cuomo
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My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'
— Henny Youngman
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My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.
— Dave Allen
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I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though.
— Les Dawson
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The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.
— Nancy Mitford
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The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
— Winston Churchill
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They love too much that die for love.
— John Ray
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The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.
— Isaac Goldberg
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What is love but a second-hand emotion?
— Tina Turner
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The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.
— Robert E. Lee
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On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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