Cynic Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  People, Cynical, Bills

  "God Is Not. Great!". Interview with Nick Gillespie, reason.com. March 15, 2012.

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• There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

  Craig Ferguson

  Spiritual, Believe, Joy

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

  Glenn Beck

  Love, Lying, Funny Relationship

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• Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Cynicism, Spelling

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• Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Real, Simple, Legends

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.3

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• The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Work, Luck, Belief

  1970 Do WhatYou Will, pt.2, ch.15.

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• Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

  Rick Bayan

  Glasses, Two, Rose

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• 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.

  Julie Burchill

  Agony, Welcome, Cynicism

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• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Wall, Iraq, People

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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• My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Pessimism, Sincerity

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• It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

  Molly Ivins

  Sound, Sides, Arguing

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• Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

  Shawn Colvin

  Views, Things In Life, Long

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• A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Funny, Men, Upset

  James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Cynical, Cynicism, Idealism

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• The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Usa, Literature

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations". Book edited by Antony Jay, 1996.

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• Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Devil, Helping, Cynicism

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• Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Love, Wisdom, Truth

  The Little Foxes (1939) act 1

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• The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Class, Two, Action

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.115

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• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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

  Carolyn Wells

  Eye, Men, Mind

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• The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

  John W. Gardner

  Business, Men, One Man

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• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  Fannie Hurst

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Lesson, Believe, Knowing Nothing

  "The Truth in Words". Book by Neal Zero, 2005.

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• Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Cynical, Belief

  "Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World, Volume 27 (The World (18 July 1894))". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1931.

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