17 Quotes on Cynic
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Author:
Irving Layton
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I'm an old cynic.
Author:
Margot Kidder
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Author:
Fannie Hurst
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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.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
Author:
Paul Getty
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The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
Author:
John Gardner
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I am not a cynic.
Author:
Kevin Costner
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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Author:
Eliza Cook
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I'm a hopeful cynic.
Author:
Tracy Chapman
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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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.
Author:
Kristen Bell
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Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Author:
Glenn Beck
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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