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Cynical Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt…
- Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
- A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved…
- Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is…
- Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
- Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
- The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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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
- The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other… — John Berger
- Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. — Ambrose Bierce
- Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it… — Allan Bloom
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- It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio. — Bono
- It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that… — John Boorman
- 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,… — Ray Bradbury
- I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people. — Jo Brand
- For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And… — Mitch Albom