Cynical Quotes

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despa...

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationsh...

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abu...

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy...

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs becom...

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots...

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good...

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cy...

Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m’dear.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constit...

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going into i...

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and...

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly...

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overd...

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ...

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything sho...

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superfi...

I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much i...

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualifi...

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to...