64 Quotes About Cynical-humor
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
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Erotic: meaning you're "desired."For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.
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- Author Paddy Chayefsky
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I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings. Since this show is the only thing I had going for me in my life, I've decided to kill myself. I'm going to blow my brains out right on this program a week from today. So tune in next Tuesday. That should give the public relations people a week to promote the show. You ought to get a hell of a rating out of that. 50 share, easy.
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- Author Benedict Jacka
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Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?”“I like to think of it as learning from experience.
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- Author Dan Simmons
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This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?
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- Author Charles F. Glassman
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In modern medicine, we have a name for nearly everything, but a cure for almost nothing.
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- Author James Branch Cabell
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The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.
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- Author Henry Louis Mencken
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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- Author Shaun David Hutchinson
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Why do people who so obviously hate children have so many of them? Audrey asked...Because they hate everyone else more. Their bratty kids are their revenge on a society that has denied them the riches they so rightly deserve.
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- Author Iain M. Banks
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The Sublime. The almost tangible, entirely believable, mathematically verifiable nirvana just a few right-angle turns away from dear boring old reality: a vast, infinite, better-than-virtual ultra-existence with no Off switch, to which species and civilizations had been hauling their sorry tired-with-it-all behinds off to since - the story went - the galaxy had still been in metaphorical knee socks.
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