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105 Cynic quotes by 87 unique authors

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. — Colum McCann
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection… — Stephen Colbert
I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I… — Nora Ephron
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. — David Eddings
She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across… — Lisa Kleypas
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a… — Oscar Wilde
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at… — H P Lovecraft
What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to… — Richard Ford
A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity. — David Gemmell
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It… — Che Guevara
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. — Colum McCann
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. — Fannie Hurst
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything." — John W. Gardner
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I… — Beau Willimon
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue… — Noam Chomsky
I am not a cynic. — Kevin Costner
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. — J. Paul Getty
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook
But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his… — Rudyard Kipling
I'm a hopeful cynic. — Tracy Chapman
I'm an old cynic. — Margot Kidder
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. s to live, it is asking others… — Oscar Wilde
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde

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