#cynicism

I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment. ↗

— Bauvard

#cynicism #disillusionment #funny #growing-up #humor

Si la cursilería fuera un pecado, yo cada noche me ganaría el infierno. ↗

— Xavier Velasco

#cynicism #humor #humor

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

#money

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is. ↗

— Harper Lee

#cynicism

Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action. And whether they'll vote New Labour at the next election. There's no need to be cynical, Susan. Why not? You've got me there. ↗

— William Donaldson

#new-labour #love

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. ↗

— Tom Waits

#cynicism #music #music

Unless I’m at a wedding, I don’t like veiled threats.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cynical #cynicism #marriage #threats #veil

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#cynicism #destroy #disillusion #effectively #just

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted. ↗

— John Lee Hancock

#anger #comes #cynicism #i #i think

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#cynicism #dead #death #death