Cynic Quote by John Milton

“There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.”

— Craig Johnson

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are…

— C. S. Lewis

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy.…

— Julie Burchill

“The imagination is a cynic.”

— Richard Hugo

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

— George Berkeley

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those…

— Oliver Stone

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

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

— Jon Snow

The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .…

— George Edgar Vincent

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

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