Cynic Quotes
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde -
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
Beau Willimon -
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton -
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.
Grace Slick Starship -
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
Victor Hugo -
Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.
Boy George Culture Club
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher -
A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.
John Milton -
We shall build on. On through the cynic
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy -
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance.
Anna Funder -
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
Carolyn Heilbrun -
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.
Paul Hawken