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Cynic Quotes
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
Man
,
Flowers
,
Looks
,
He
,
Who
,
Smells
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
Joyce Brothers
Love
,
Butterfly
,
Balance
,
Help
,
Rebel
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
H. P. Lovecraft
Beauty
,
Perfect
,
True
,
Worship
,
Possible
The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
John W. Gardner
Man
,
Say
,
Only
,
Anything
,
Says
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Glenn Beck
Romantic
,
Remember
,
Lies
,
Beneath
,
Every
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
Young
,
Nothing
,
Believing
,
Knowing
,
Gone
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Man
,
Value
,
Price
,
Nothing
,
Everything
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
Woman
,
Wit
,
Text
,
Sinner
,
Justification
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God
,
Faith
,
Effort
,
Blind
,
Belief
,
Satan
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
Noam Chomsky
Free
,
Tradition
,
Say
,
Why
,
Exist
,
Use
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Eliza Cook
Down
,
Why
,
Fairy
,
Strive
,
Castles
,
Knock
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
Vision
,
Things
,
Whose
,
Sees
,
Ought
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
Short
,
Long
,
Done
,
Run
,
Matter
,
Realist
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
Man
,
Wise
,
Enough
,
Wise Man
,
Clever
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
Penn Jillette
I Am
,
People
,
Me
,
Know
,
Person
,
Cynical
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton
Making
,
Idealist
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
J. Paul Getty
Born
,
Pessimist
,
I Was Born
,
Deny
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
Girl
,
Nervous
,
Real
,
Sarcastic
,
Tomboy
I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
Carl Icahn
Democracy
,
Corporate
,
About
,
Boards
I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.
Sonam Kapoor
Love
,
Relationship
,
Better
,
Believe
,
Way
I'm a hopeful cynic.
Tracy Chapman
Hopeful
I am not a cynic.
Kevin Costner
I Am
,
Am
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.
Julian Baggini
Challenge
,
Progress
,
Better
,
Bad
,
More
The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life.
Gunnar Myrdal
Life
,
Faith
,
Rest
,
American
,
True
,
Him
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Romantic
,
Pain
,
Joy
,
Me
,
Believing
It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.
Tom King
Good
,
Best
,
You
,
Wrong
,
Proving
,
Being
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