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#cynicism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #cynicism




By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.


Dorothy Parker


#cynicism #love #lying #passion #love

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse


Joseph Brodsky


#human #life #philosophy #wisdom #life

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.


Terry Pratchett


#good-and-evil #idealism #politics #vetinari #life

The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty, which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism, as saving them trouble & expense. —Aleister Crowley. 1929-03-09 diary entry.


Lawrence Sutin


#cynicism #sex #life

Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn’t generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn’t function if that were the case.


K.J. Parker


#economy #money #money

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.


Melika Dannese Lux


#kindred-spirits #olga-belododia #partners #realization #recognition

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.


Carl Barks


#cynicism #did #get #had #hell

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.


Bergen Evans


#humor #humor

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.


Edward Dowden


#cynicism #depict #experiment #hazardous #humour

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.


Susan Estrich


#certain level #convention #cynicism #different #every






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