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  1. H. Rider Haggard _ She: A History of Adventure

    It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
    book-quotemoralityhopelessnessimmorality

  2. Lawrence Sutin _ Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of

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

  3. James Scott Bell _ Sins of the Fathers

    ...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since."
    book-quotehumorgodcynicism

  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
    book-quoteidealisminnocencecynicism

  5. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    ... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat
    book-quotedrinkingdemocracycynicism

  6. Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion

    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?
    book-quotecynicismcynicism-realityjoke-life

  7. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Return of the King

    Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?
    book-quotesadnessmetaphorcynicism

  8. Paul Murray _ The Mark and the Void

    Capitalism needs war.
    book-quotecynicism

  9. Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister

    It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.
    book-quotepolicesociety-thinkingcynicism

  10. Frank Herbert _ Dune Messiah

    Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.
    book-quoteheresycynicismdoubt

  11. Matt Taibbi _ Griftopia: Bubble Machines,

    To sum it all up, the {Ayn} Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.3. Charity is immoral.4. Pay for your own fucking schools."
    book-quotephilosophycynicismobjectivism

  12. Zoë Heller _ What Was She Thinking? [Notes

    If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.
    book-quotecynicism
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