89 Cynical Quotes from Movies with Sound Clips - page 6

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

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.

51 Look, don't call him a hero to me. I was there, right? Well, he fell off a bar stool and broke his neck. That's how it really happened.

Quote from The Loved One (1965)

52 Maybe it's just the whole damn world is like Central Casting. They got it all rigged before you ever show up.

Jane Fonda as Gloria Beatty in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

53 Oh, don't imagine that you're going to die of it today or tomorrow. No, no, we can take our time.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

54 Sorry for the gravediggers. Hard work. It is frost.

Quote from The Third Man (1949)

55 The day they lay you away, what I'll do on your grave won't pass for flowers.

Harry Morgan as Marshal Thibido in The Shootist

56 When my time comes to die, I won't drag it out. I'll just do it. Why the hell don't you?

Harry Morgan as Marshal Thibido in The Shootist

57 We live in a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors.

Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire in Jerry Maguire

58 Peace is for the women... and the weak. Empires are forged by war.

Brian Cox as Agamemnon in Troy

59 Say, the flies here are terrible. -You pick out the ones you don't like and I'll kill them for you.

Quote from She Done Him Wrong (1933)

60 Think of trying to bump herself off in here, of all places. -Oh, she come to the right place, all right.