39 Quotes About Cynic

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

Diogenes was a cynic at his best. He was in search of an honest man but not an hones woman.

Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism.

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

It is not only every man for himself but also every man for some men for himself.