Cynic Quotes

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

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

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

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

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

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

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

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

We shall build on. On through the cynic

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.

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

A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.

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

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.