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cynic
1. I wonder if they have different purposes or if it’s all just a big con to impress the punters … Anna, you cynic!
2. succeeded in getting better Press (the cynic in me puts it
3. He was a cynic who believed that there'd always be some form of unrest
4. Justice, in the mind of a Cynic, is that which promotes Self-Interest!
5. The cynic in me (and it grows larger year by year) leads me to think that the management were attempting something cooky and unique, rather than just budgetary miscalculation
6. Grobut was a cynic, and Stazl would be glad to part ways with him once this infernal business was over
7. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of
8. What cynic was the Bard
9. And yet without the cynic,
10. But do not let yourself go to bitterness, and so turn into a cynic yourself
11. But was he really happy with his asceticism and his earthenware jar of a home? A Cynic philosopher
12. Could a cynic be happy? Is anyone, in the last analysis, ever satisfied with his life?”
13. He was still too young to be a cynic but he did know that there is an expiry date for everything
14. When he did not, Doug continued, confident that if even the cynic did not believe what he was saying, he could at least understand what was being said
15. He was a cynic, and he was clean and sober
16. [163] Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) said, "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
17. But Bil was a cynic, a disappointed father, and an unhappy man
18. Cynic methods were
19. " But in any case he could not remain a cynic and a dirty sloven; he had no right to offend the feelings of others, especially when they were in need of his
20. don't regard me as a cynic, please; I am perfectly aware how atrocious it was of me and all that; but I know for certain, too, that Marfa Petrovna was very likely pleased at my, so to say, warmth
21. The old cynic chose to be vastly offended at this nicety; assuring me, repeatedly, that "the bairn was every bit as good" as I, "and every bit as wollsome," and wondering how I could fashion to be so conceited
22. For a moment it had turned me to a cynic
23. " But in any case he could not remain a cynic and a dirty sloven; he had no right to offend the feelings of others, especially when they were in need of his assistance and asking him to see them
24. He went as the deputy of some missionary society to preach in the neighbourhood of Trantridge, a place forty miles from here, and made it his business to expostulate with a lax young cynic he met with somewhere about there—son of some landowner up that way—and who has a mother afflicted with blindness
25. Cynical things he had uttered to himself about her; but no man can be always a cynic and live; and he withdrew them
26. Arch Carroll, supposed tough-guy, well-quoted cynic around town—there he sat in the tub with one of his kids’ rubber toys floating next to him
27. The old cynic chose to be vastly offended at this nicety; assuring me, repeatedly, that ‘the barn was every bit as good’ as I, ‘and every bit as wollsome,’ and wondering how I could fashion to be so conceited
28. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as though they had shared some piece of good luck together
29. A sewer is a cynic
30. Yes, you cynic, win-win situations are possible even in the business world
31. ’ But in any case he could not remain a cynic and a dirty sloven; he had no right to offend the feelings of others, especially when they were in need of his assistance and asking him to see them
32. … don’t regard me as a cynic, please; I am perfectly aware how atrocious it was of me and all that; but I know for certain, too, that Marfa Petrovna was very likely pleased at my, so to say, warmth
33. I aimed always at figuring both as a sarcastic cynic divorced from every sacred tie and as a shrewd observer, as well as at being accounted logical in all my conduct, precise and methodical in all my ways of life, and at the same time contemptuous of all materiality
34. Only Lubov Sergievna, who, I believe, really believed me to be a great egoist, atheist, and cynic, had no love for me, but frequently disputed what I said, flew into tempers, and left me petrified with her disjointed, irrelevant utterances