What Is A Cynic Quotes

#1. Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.

Oscar Wilde

#2. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

Oscar Wilde

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

J. Paul Getty

#4. If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

Stephen Baxter

#5. A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

John Updike

#6. For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#7. Your such a cynic.
Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

Martin Cruz Smith

#8. Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

Hugh MacLeod

#9. It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

H.P. Lovecraft

#10. A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.

James Gould Cozzens

#11. 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

#12. I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

John Lennon

#13. A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#14. He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

Colum McCann

#15. No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

Louis L'Amour

#16. The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Jennifer Crusie

#17. I couldn't decide who was more annoying, the fanatic or the cynic.

Rick Yancey

#18. Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

Rick Bayan

#19. The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done ... But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.

George Edgar Vincent

#20. What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all; ...
to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good,even if the good is not simple to find. We try, as my sister said. We try.

Richard Ford

#21. 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

#22. Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick.

Paul Halmos

#23. A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Marcus Aurelius

#25. It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century B.C., the cynics were the fashion, especially in Alexandria. They published little sermons pointing out how easy it is to do without material possessions,

Bertrand Russell

#26. The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

Jon Snow

#27. A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Julie Burchill

#28. In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

Criss Jami

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

Maya Angelou

#30. The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

Richard Dawkins

#31. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

Kenneth Cain

#32. 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

#33. The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Lord Chesterfield

#34. The best part of being a cynic is, you're rarely disappointed.

Myself

#35. You're a hard-core cynic

Maya Banks

#36. Cynic' is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.

Gregory Benford

#37. The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.

James Allen

#38. It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

Jess C. Scott

#39. a cynic is one who has given up but not yet shut up. Commit

Kerry A. Robinson

#40. Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.

Paul Miller

#41. A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

Evan Esar

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

Carolyn Wells

#43. An idealist believes that 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

David Allen

#44. I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here's my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it's tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you'll be
old. And then you'll be dead.

Tim Minchin

#45. So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In

Colum McCann

#46. It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.

Derek Landy