Cynic Quotes

105 quotes by 89 authors

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. — Glenn Beck
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 in real womanlike… — Kristen Bell
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them… — Jeff Bridges
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives. — Joyce Brothers
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. — Sydney J. Harris
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
Idealist: a cynic in the making. — Irving Layton
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. — James Gould Cozzens
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect. — Uell Stanley Andersen
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… — Henry Ward Beecher
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But… — George Edgar Vincent
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and… — R C Sproul
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about… — John Ortberg
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. — Joanna Hoffman
Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards. — Carl Icahn

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