39 Quotes About Cynic

It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.

The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

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

I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable.