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Cynic Quotes

Cynic Definition

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
Shawn Colvin

I am not a cynic.
Kevin Costner

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
Paul Getty

I'm a hopeful cynic.
Tracy Chapman

I'm an old cynic.
Margot Kidder

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.
Kristen Bell

Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Glenn Beck

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
John W. Gardner

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Eliza Cook

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland

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