Best Cynic Sayings
105 Cynic quotes by 87 unique authors
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There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual…
— Craig Ferguson
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The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
— Matt LeBlanc
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Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's…
— David Hyde Pierce
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Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of…
— Zubin Mehta
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I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world..…
— Walid Jumblatt
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The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.
— Jon Snow
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do…
— H P Lovecraft
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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.
— Grace Slick
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The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is…
— John Bolton
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In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
— Criss Jami
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left…
— Sydney J. Harris
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People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very,…
— Penn Jillette
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid…
— John F. Kennedy
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
— H. L. Mencken
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there…
— H. L. Mencken
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
— H. L. Mencken
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
— Helen Rowland
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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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.
— Eric Hoffer
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Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
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…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
— Sharon Kay Penman
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of…
— Anais Nin
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You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.
— Jim Butcher
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No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
— Louis L'Amour
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