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cynic

«Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?»
«Idealist: a cynic in the making.»
Author: Irving Layton | Keywords: cynic, idealist
«The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.»
«The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.»
«What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.»
«It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to»
Author: Fannie Hurst (Writer) | Keywords: cynic
«Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification»
«There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: believing, cynic, pitiful
«If someone tells him the truth, he looks upon that as poison. He cannot tell victory from defeat. This is the way of life in the world of the faithless cynic.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: cynic

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