Cynical Quotes

497 Cynical quotes by 414 unique authors

I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world… — Unknown Author
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our… — Kurt Vonnegut
I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly… — Berkeley Breathed
I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that. — Amy Winehouse
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot
It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence… — Dave Barry
You made one mistake. You married me. — Brendan Behan
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed. — Isaiah Berlin
All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in… — Ugo Betti
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. — Nicolas Chamfort
Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old. — Brock Chisholm
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. — Unknown Author
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly
Justice is the sanction of established injustice. — Anatole France
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. — Oliver Goldsmith
There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this… — Ulysses S. Grant
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed… — Sydney J. Harris
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice… — Eugene Ionesco
Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name. — Immanuel Kant
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said… — Walter Lippmann
The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. — George Lois
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. — H. L. Mencken
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. — Alexander Pushkin

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