Cynic Quotes
105 quotes by 89 authors
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Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
— Glenn Beck
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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
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
— Maya Angelou
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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
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
— Irving Layton
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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
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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
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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
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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
— Anna Funder
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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
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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
— Vachel Lindsay
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An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
— Peter Drucker
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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
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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
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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
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Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
— Carl Icahn
Who Wrote These Cynic Quotes
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