Cynic Quote by Pamela Jaye Smith Download Open image ““A cynic is just a wounded romantic.”” — Pamela Jaye Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynic Cynical Cynicism Cynics Doubt Doubter Doubtful Love Pessimism Pessimistic
“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Cynics are spoiled romantics. They are always the ones who had the highest expectations at the start. They were once so naïve themselves that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The romantics would call this a love story:the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, I have a romantic nature; it is a character flaw which should be viewed with pity, not derision.” — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
“Sorry if you believe in true love, I'm a hopeless romantic too, but I'm also a realist and wear my cynicism like armour.” — Hannah Witton Copy Share Image
“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.” — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“I’m too romantic for my own good. And okay, you get kicked in the butt sometimes. But, frankly, I’d rather have, you know —… — Tom Rachman 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
