A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
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.
Sydney J. Harris
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
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
I am not a cynic.
Kevin Costner
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
Paul Getty
I'm a hopeful cynic.
Tracy Chapman
I'm an old cynic.
Margot Kidder
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
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Glenn Beck
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
John W. Gardner
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Eliza Cook
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland
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