110 Cynical Quotes from Movies with Audio

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

Scrooge McDuck; Ebenezer Scrooge 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 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)

6 Sounds like someone's sick. How lovely. I do hope it's serious. Something dreadful.

Martha Wentworth as Madam Mim in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

7 Listen, I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops, but it also means that I keep my options open.

Quote from The Hunt for Red October

8 He's saying that life is _ and it is, so what are you screaming about?

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)

9 I want to see this dead grandmother, firsthand.

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

10 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)