98 Cynical Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

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A selection of cynical quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 In his will he left me enough money to pay for his tombstone. Ha! And I had him buried at sea!

Ebenezer Scrooge; Scrooge Mcduck in Mickey Mouse

2 If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips would be cooked with his own turkey, and buried with a stake of Holly through his heart.

Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol

3 How can you justify destroying a $7 million mini mall to rescue a girl whose ransom is only $25,000?

Quote from Demolition Man

4 Since it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho

5 I want to see this dead grandmother, firsthand.

Jeffrey Jones as Ed Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

6 There's got to be a way to get those stiffs off my property.

Jonathan Winters as Harry And Wilbur Glenworthy in The Loved One (1965)

7 Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?

Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949)

8 If I offered you 20000 pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?

Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949)

9 Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat. I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949)

10 And you? Why did you choose to love a god? I think you'll find the romance one-sided.

Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy