Top 141 Cynic Quotes & Sayings

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

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

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

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

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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

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

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

Personally, I'm such a cynic.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

Everyone believes or perceives me to be a ruthless cynic, but far from it.

The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

I'm an old cynic.

Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive."

I'm a hopeful cynic.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

We shall build on. On through the cynic

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.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

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

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.

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

I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.

I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being an over-believer in spiritual or in paranormal matters.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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.

The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.

I am not a cynic.

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

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

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

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

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

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.

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.