Quotes on Cynic

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

Author: Maya Angelou

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

Author: Glenn Beck

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

I'm a hopeful cynic.

Author: Tracy Chapman

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

Author: Eliza Cook

I am not a cynic.

Author: Kevin Costner

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

Author: John Gardner

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

Author: Paul Getty

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

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

Author: Fannie Hurst

I'm an old cynic.

Author: Margot Kidder

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Author: Irving Layton

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

Author: H. Mencken

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

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

Author: Carolyn Wells

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

Author: Oscar Wilde