Top 33 Cynic Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Cynic Quotes from famous people such as Tony Blair, Joyce Brothers, Peter Hook, Mark Kurlansky, Tracy Chapman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
Tony Blair
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
Joyce Brothers
I’m one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
Peter Hook
I have written a considerable amount – both fiction and nonfiction – about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people – a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.
Mark Kurlansky
I’m a hopeful cynic.
Tracy Chapman
Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken
People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
Penn Jillette
I always believe that it’s better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That’s the only way to survive a relationship.
Sonam Kapoor
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
H. P. Lovecraft
Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We’ve shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
Mark Warner
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. Mencken
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren’t that bad and are bound to get better anyway.
Julian Baggini
I’m disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I’m cynical but not a cynic. I’m cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.
Howard Fast
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
Beau Willimon
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Glenn Beck
I’m passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I’m despondent. I’m disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.
F. Murray Abraham
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind’s eye.
Carolyn Wells
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don’t live as if they deny it.
Joshua Lederberg
I am not a cynic.
Kevin Costner
Hello, friends.’ I’ve had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don’t apologize for it. Like my dad – for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease – I’ve never met a stranger.
Jim Nantz
It’s one thing to be a cynic or an opponent of Jim Harbaugh if you’re a fan of Ohio State or Michigan State or Penn State or an SEC school.
Kirk Herbstreit
Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don’t want to follow cautious cynics.
Stanley A. McChrystal
It’s good to be a cynic. I’m a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong.
Tom King
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic – the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton
I’m an old cynic.
Margot Kidder