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Cynic Quotes (page 6)

I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose. Oscar Wilde
Tracy Kidder quote: "among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all"
among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all Tracy Kidder
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans... David Foster Wallace
Meg Cabot quote: "It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me..."
It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious. Meg Cabot
Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky
The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities. Richard Carlson
Yukio Mishima quote: "The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always..."
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority Yukio Mishima
Joni Mitchell quote: "All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical..."
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe. Joni Mitchell
What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all;... to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if the good is not simple to find. We try, as my sister said. We try. Richard Ford
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here. Nick Cave
The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her. Candace Bushnell
For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food. Anthony Bourdain
Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for "sitting where a god has stood". What flabbergasted him was that his traveling companions would be in such a sanctified environment and winter what they saw according to other writers or their denominational background instead their own experience with the holy. Mark Twain
...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt it for yourself. Christopher Hitchens
David Eddings quote: "You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your..."
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. David Eddings

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