Cynical Quotes

497 Cynical quotes by 414 unique authors

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
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well. — Andre Siegfried
We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression. — Max Stirner
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White
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
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with. — W.C. Fields
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
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
Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is! — Ed Harris
If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy! — Emm Gryner
If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy. — Andrew Cuomo
My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough' — Henny Youngman
My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties. — Dave Allen
I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though. — Les Dawson
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is. — Nancy Mitford
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself. — Winston Churchill
They love too much that die for love. — John Ray
The reason that women do not love one another is - men. — Jean de la Bruyere
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once. — Logan Pearsall Smith
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
What is love but a second-hand emotion? — Tina Turner
The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education. — Robert E. Lee
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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