39 Quotes About Cynic

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

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion.

A cynic is just a wounded romantic.

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.

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