107 Quotations with Cynic.
- 1. George Bernard Shaw: The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have ...

- 2. Lily Tomlin: No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

- 3. Robert Anton Wilson: Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as ...

- 4. Dame Rose Macaulay: He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - c ...

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

- 6. Lillian Hellman: Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object o ...

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

- 9. Ambrose Bierce: Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ...

- 10. Diogenes the Cynic: If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturb ...

- 11. David T. Wolf: Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

- 12. H. L. Mencken: The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

- 13. Sidney J. Harris: A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who ...

- 14. James Gould Cozzens: A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any ...

- 15. Diogenes the Cynic: Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

- 16. Oscar Wilde: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothin ...

- 17. Oscar Levant: I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he co ...

- 18. Diogenes the Cynic: [When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever ...
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- 19. Peggy Noonan: Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly becau ...

- 20. Eric Hoffer: The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentl ...

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