A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H.L. MenckenTags: definitions cynic
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.
Diane SetterfieldNowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeTags: cynic
Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.
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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.
Mike CareyHe 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.
Colum McCannLife was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.
Mary BaloghThis boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful for him. He was very young. He knew very little of life. He saw beauty but he did not feel any true passion. How could he? He did not know. He had not really encountered the force of beauty's opposite."
"Are you more cynical now, then?" she asked him.
"Cynical," he frowned, "No, not that. I know that there is an ugly side of life-and not just human life. I know that everything is not simply beautiful. I am not a romantic as this boy was. But I am not a cynic either. There is something enduring in all of life, Anne, something tough. Something. Something terribly weak yet incredibly powerful...
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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
Criss JamiTags: humor people cynicism funny cynic cynical boredom boring mediocrity activity contagious yawn bore yawning
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
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