Cynical Book Quotes

#1. Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books ... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Agnes Smedley

#2. I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

Michael Ondaatje

#3. The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Nicolas Chamfort

#4. Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' ... or maybe it was a 'cynical misanthrope' ... but either way, he (or she) was right; and what got me this way was politics.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.

Kristin Davis

#6. Still, it's a nice, cynical book for those who like atrocity scenes - starving prisoners forced to eat their girlfriends, etc.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown ... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

Jeremy Larner