Cynical Quotes - Page 8

• Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Substitutes, Adolescence

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.278, University of Wisconsin Pres

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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 is the oil without which the machinery would not work.

  Woodrow Wyatt

  Lying, Oil, Wish

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• Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.

  W. C. Fields

  Smile, Morning, Firsts

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• Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

  William Shatner

  Pain, Taken, Magic

  "Fictional character: James T. Kirk". "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", 1989.

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• I'm a cynical idealist.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Idealist

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• I like threesomes with two women, not because I'm a cynical sexual predator. Oh no! But because I'm a romantic. I'm looking for "The One." And I'll find her more quickly if I audition two at a time.

  Russell Brand

  Sex, Two, Predator

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 28, 2012

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• Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Track, Generations

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.14, Dell

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• As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Fall, Rain, Dark

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• She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Loneliness, Vulnerable, Moments

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• They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

  Iain Banks

  Mean, Speak, Wells

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• ... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, People, Giving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.62, Penguin

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• I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

  Fay Weldon

  Next, Happens, Knows

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Chalcot Crescent”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.

  Pentti Linkola

  War, Years, People

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.152, Arktos

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• One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Positive, Fun, Hopeful

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• The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Challenges

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

  David Levithan

  New York, Sorry

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.22, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Tired, I Am So Tired, Let Me

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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• Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)

  George R. R. Martin

  Believe, Boys, Giving

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.286, Bantam

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• Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Years, Opposites, Sometimes

  Claire LaZebnik (2011). “Epic Fail”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Girl, Kissing, Men

  J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.96, Vintage

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• Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Boys, Scary

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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• Humans have always preferred to live their lives​ by daylight. I used to think it was because human beings have crappy night vision, and it wasn't until I got older and more cynical that I realized it was because they have less to be afraid of during the day.

  Mira Grant

  Night, Thinking, Vision

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• We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

  Federico Fellini

  Purity And Innocence, Mask, Innocence

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• You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

  Derek Landy

  Men, Missing, Cain

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• It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Moral Corruption, Boyhood, Facts

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