“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 prosaic fact of the universe's existence single-handedly defeats the pragmatist and the cynic.” — Stephen King 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
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed... — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I really am a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she… — Joanna Hoffman Copy Share Image
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“In English we say: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. In Naskarian we say: it's not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
“A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy.… — Jackson Burnett Copy Share Image
My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in which I am an expert … For decades,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“The cynic and the realist both see people and things for how they are, but the cynic still expects them to conform… — Elle Copy Share Image
“Often the cynic is wise toward reality but a simpleton toward redemption. The cynic offers thick and nuanced description of the swamps… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me -… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
