Cynic Quotes

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."

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

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

I am not a cynic.

I'm an old cynic.

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.

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

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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.

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

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.