Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.
I'm a hopeful cynic.
I am not a cynic.
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
I'm an old cynic.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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