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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

I couldn't decide who was more annoying, the fanatic or the cynic. — Rick Yancey

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. — Paul Hawken

The best part of being a cynic is, you're rarely disappointed. — Myself

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

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

Who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come? — Ursula Curtiss

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

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

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

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour

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

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

I am not a cynic. — Kevin Costner

The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat. — James Allen

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

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

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

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. — George Carlin

a cynic is one who has given up but not yet shut up. Commit — Kerry A. Robinson

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 of a cynic. — Matt Taibbi

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker

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

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute. — Jim Butcher

What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer
a 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

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

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 opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. — Eric Hoffer

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further. — Jennifer Crusie

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world. — Criss Jami

I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist. — U.G. Krishnamurti

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay

I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter. — Howard Fast

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

Of course, you're always a cynic before you fall in love yourself... — Holly Bourne

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 cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity. — David Gemmell

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature. — John Milton

She might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it. — Kate DiCamillo

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

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't — Clive James

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

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

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Shane Kuhn

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

Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both. — Grace Slick

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