Quotes About Cynicism

It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.

Bosh!' said Lord Peter.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn't care.

I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.

Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody.

I thought," he said, "that if the world was going to end we were meant to lie down or put a paper bag over our head or something." "If you like, yes," said Ford. "That's what they told us in the army," said the man, and his eyes began the long trek back down to his whisky. "Will that help?" asked the barman. "No," said Ford and gave him a friendly smile.

Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody.

Life',said Marvin,'don't talk to me about life

He began to despise the Universe in general, and everybody in it in particular.

only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony—which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I can't imagine anything worse than that. Okay, maybe I can, but imagine reading the morning newspaper and believing it all to be true on some level.

Sometimes I think there are people who only read books in the hope of finding mistakes in them.

It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.

Edward turned to Miss Marple. "It's like this, you see. As Uncle Mathew grew older, he got more and more suspicious. He didn't trust anybody." "Very wise of him," said Miss Marple. "The depravity of human nature is unbelievable.

Oh yes," said Miss Marple fervently. "I always believe the worst. What is so sad is that one is usually justified in doing so.

Yes, I remember the one you mean. All a lot of hooey, though.

Pero recuerde que en esta vida las cosas no son tan bonitas como parecen a primera vista.

Men—" said Miss Williams, and stopped. As a rich property owner says "Bolsheviks"—as an earnest Communist says "Capitalists!"—as a good housewife says "Blackbeetles"—so did Miss Williams say "Men!

Children picked up things on a different level than adults. They hadn't spent much time building up defense mechanisms and rationalizations for all the shitty things that happen in the world. Kids take everything straight, no chaser. It's later on we all start bullshitting ourselves. Dominic

I despise hearing about other people's problems, because I don't like most people, especially people who would be described as normal.

The world was amoral. To be idealistic was to ask to be blindsided,

Probably fake anyway," Adrana said, with a knowing sniff, as if she had plenty of experience in this area. "C'mon. Don't want to dawdle, not when there's so much to see. The next one's a Limb Broker.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.