Quotes with cynic

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

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  • Lord Chesterfield The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carolyn Wells A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Irving Layton Idealist: a cynic in the making.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher 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.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oscar Wilde The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dean Charles R. Brown The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
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  • John W. Gardner The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eliza Cook Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Helen Rowland Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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