Cynic Quote by Irving Layton Download Open image “Idealist: a cynic in the making.” — Irving Layton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynic Idealist Pessimism
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
“Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.” — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong,… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
