Cynic Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the…

— H. L. Mencken

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

— Carolyn Wells

“The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to be interviewed.…

— Dick Keyes

“Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.”

— Jayce O'Neal

“Cynicism may seem a mild transgression, but it is a patient predator that suffocates hope, slowly, over many years,”

— Rachel Held Evans

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

— Ambrose Bierce

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

— H. L. Mencken

“Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. ”

— Jayce O'Neal

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their…

— Joyce Brothers

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

— Fannie Hurst