I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Everyone believes or perceives me to be a ruthless cynic, but far from it. — Ekta Kapoor Copy Share Image
who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come? — Ursula Curtiss Copy Share Image
I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open… — Tom Tomorrow Copy Share Image
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good,… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence single-handedly defeats the pragmatist and the cynic.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s… — Burton G. Malkiel Copy Share Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
![“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable, and take human nature as you find it, smiling when it's absurd and grieved without exaggeration when it's pitiful, is to be cynical, then I suppose I'm a cynic. Mostly human…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e51/w-somerset-maugham-237_human-nature_i-haven-t-deeply-considered-the-matter-b_484661.jpg)
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