Quotes About Cynic

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

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty.

Patrick is not a cynic, Timothy. He's the boy next door, aren't you honey?" "No I'm not," I whisper to myself. "I'm a fucking evil psychopath.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.

I can't answer that, replied the werewolf. Like all good dogs, I'm a cynic, and therefore a little blind. I can only see things as they are, not as they ought to be...

No man can be a cynic and live.

A cynic once said that there is nothing more permanent than a temporary government policy.

I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the economy – but to convince the public not only that he has a plan but that he is altogether confident in the plan's success and that only a cynic or someone in different to the public's well-being would dare to question him on the details.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

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

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.

a cynic is one who has given up but not yet shut up. Commit

Oscar Wilde had already highlighted this problem in 1892 when depicting a cynic as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing".

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.

Charlie had come to believe himself an outsider to love. Not that he was incapable of it, or immune to it. Not at all. He was an incurable romantic, as many inveterate cynics often are. It wasn't that he didn't believe love was possible because he absolutely did, but rather that he didn't believe it was possible for him. So he was doomed to live in a permanent state of quiet unfulfilment. And then he met Stefan.

Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.