#cynic

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends. ↗

— Scott Dikkers

#cynicism #friendship #humor #friendship

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

— Xavier Velasco

#cynicism #humor #humor

My love is expansive. Your love is expensive.
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— Jarod Kintz

#expansive #expensive #funny #humor #life

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

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#motivation #attitude

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#been #charged #clients #cynical #defend

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film. ↗

— John Boorman

#attuned #audience #aware #being #clear

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

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#history #love #pessimism #truth #art

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

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#cynical #danger #life #courage