cynicism Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

20 cynicism Quotes
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“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side”
Molly Ivins Quotes
“Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.”
David Wolf Quotes
“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Cynics are made, not born.”
Lillian Hellman Quotes
“The opposite of creativity is cynicism”
Esa Saarinen Quotes
“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically”
Vincent van Gogh Quotes
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
“Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.”
J. Russel Lynes Quotes
“Cynicism is the humor of hatred.”
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Quotes
“It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.”
George Jean Nathan Quotes
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.”
David T. Wolf Quotes
“Cynicism is intellectual treason.”
Norman Cousins Quotes
“It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.”
Fannie Hurst Quotes
“A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.'”
Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
“A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.”
James G. Cozzens Quotes
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“I'm a hopeful cynic.”
Tracy Chapman Quotes
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