17 Quotes Tagged: cynical

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

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

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

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The truth brings no man a fortune

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.

It's good to be cynical, he said. That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to respect and reverence- they don't deserve anything but cynicism.

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

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