Quotes About Cynic

It's one thing to be a cynic or an opponent of Jim Harbaugh if you're a fan of Ohio State or Michigan State or Penn State or an SEC school.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

Crossan's view of Jesus sounds very familiar as a result of our survey. Jesus was a Jewish cynic peasant with an alternative social vision.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

God save me from idealists.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

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.

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

Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.

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

Everyone believes or perceives me to be a ruthless cynic, but far from it.

The imagination is a cynic.

Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

Furthermore the true Cynic must know that he is sent as a Messenger from God to men, to show unto them that as touching good and evil they are in error; looking for these where they are not to be found, nor ever bethinking themselves where they are.