Cynic Quotes

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken
Man He Smells Looks Around Cynic Who Coffin Flowers
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde
Man Value Nothing Everything Price Knows Cynic Who
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God Faith Satan Miracles Our Those Destroy Lies He Part Fail Naive Sophisticated Adversary Blind Spreads His Brainwashed Intelligent Effort Wants While Skeptic Us Cynic Who Belief
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it. H. P. Lovecraft
Beauty Other Worship Possible Scarcely Seems Superiority Civilised Perfect Cat True Than Any Cynic Symbol
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou
Young Gone Nothing He Knowing Because Pitiful Cynic Believing
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. Fannie Hurst
Wise Man Wise Man Clever Enough Takes Clever Man Turn Cynic
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives. Joyce Brothers
Love Balance Other Finds Idealist Conformist Social Cynic Help Rebel Each Lives Butterfly
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything. Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Me Joy Pain Everything Hoping About Between Tug Being Romantic Anything Barely Cynic Believing
I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards. Carl Icahn
Democracy Corporate About Boards Cynic
Everyone believes or perceives me to be a ruthless cynic, but far from it. Ekta Kapoor
Me Everyone Ruthless Far Cynic Believes
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? Eliza Cook
Down Strive Castles Knock Fairy Frown Should Cynic Why
I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity. George MacDonald Fraser
Humanity Believe Rather Suppose Cynic
Idealist: a cynic in the making. Irving Layton
Idealist Making Cynic
I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it. Kristen Bell
Nervous Girl About Vulnerable Real Very Situations Where Little Used Cynic Sarcastic Tomboy Playing
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long. Shawn Colvin
Life Long Tough Healthy Pleasure Out Stay Point Point Of View Fairly Lot Very Pitiful Dismal Really View Hard Derive Cynic Cynicism Things
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist. Noam Chomsky
Free Say Institutions Tradition Continue Exist Passivity Might Use Certainly Cynic Why

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