Zitat des Tages über Zyniker / Cynic:
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
I'm an old cynic.
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.
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.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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.
The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
I am not a cynic.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
I'm a hopeful cynic.
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
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.
