Quotes about Cynic

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty.