#Cynicism Quotes

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.”

“IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.”

“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.”

“Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing”

“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.”

“Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.”

“In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.”

“If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'”

“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”

“A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.”

“If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.”

“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”

“Politics is applesauce.”

“We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.”

“The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.”

“I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.”

“There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.”

“I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.”

“If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.”

“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”

“Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.”

“It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.”

“The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.”

“Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”

“America has the best politicians money can buy.”

“We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?”

“You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.”

“A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.”

“Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

“Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.”

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.”

“Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.”

“Duty is what one expects from others.”

“Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.”

“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”

“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”

“The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.”

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.”

“Men become old, but they never become good.”

“It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.”

“the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.”

“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”

“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”

“Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.”

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.”