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He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I wasn't a cynic; I was a banged-up realist.
— Wally Lamb
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.
— Evan Esar
Optimism skipped out on the rent a while back, but the cynic in the penthouse won't leave until led out by marshals.
— Colson Whitehead
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.
— Jayce O'Neal
Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
— Samuel Beckett
You're a cynic," Urgit accused.Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. — David Eddings
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.
— Charles Dudley Warner
... a cynic is only a term used by an idealist to describe a realist.
— Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not a cynic.
— Kevin Costner
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
— Victor Hugo
I'm an old cynic.
— Margot Kidder
You're a hard-core cynic
— Maya Banks
A journalist can not be a cynic, can not forget his humanity and that of the people he meets
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
Don't let the cynic in you drown out the dreamer.
— J.A. DeRouen
Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay. — Basava
The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
— John W. Gardner
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
— Criss Jami
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
— Criss Jami
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
— Colum McCann
a cynic is one who has given up but not yet shut up. Commit
— Kerry A. Robinson
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
— J. Paul Getty
The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.
— Jon Snow
The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.
— Sydney J. Harris
The cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
— Anais Nin
A cynic is a frustrated idealist.
— Al Ruksenas
What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answera sign of the love of the Lord. — Elisabeth Elliot
Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.
— Neal Stephenson
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't even become a cynic. Anything but that!
— James Patterson
We shall build on.On through the cynic — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
— Sydney J. Harris
A cynic is a person who sees things as it is; he has no concept of future or past.
— Debasish Mridha
Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.
— Peter Bishop
The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.
— Jennifer Crusie
I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
— Heywood Broun
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
— Maya Angelou
Do not hope; instead, observe were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot.
— Kate DiCamillo
The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.
— Joanna Hoffman
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.
— H.P. Lovecraft
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
— Jess C. Scott
A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.
— John Milton
So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In
— Colum McCann
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.
— Ed Stetzer
An optimist is a braver cynic.
— Colum McCann
For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.
— Wolfgang Beltracchi
Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.
— Jennifer Crusie
He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
— Colum McCann
I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.
— Scott Crow
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Scratch a cynic and you'll find a disappointed idealist.
— Jon F. Merz
Despite appearances I'm not a cynic. I'm a sarcastic pragmatist.
— Stephen B5 Jones
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
— Uell Stanley Andersen
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
— James Richardson
A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
— John Updike
I'm a hopeful cynic.
— Tracy Chapman
Cynic' is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.
— Gregory Benford
I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
— Carl Icahn
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed)
— Cornell Woolrich
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
— Penn Jillette
... a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed ...
— Sharon Kay Penman
Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.
— Christopher Moore
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
Your such a cynic.Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth. — Martin Cruz Smith
A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.
— Debasish Mridha
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
I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.
— Tom Tomorrow
I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.
— George MacDonald Fraser