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Cynics and cynicism

A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
- Bierce, Ambrose
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Best Quotes about Cynics and cynicism

1.
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

2.
Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
Greene, Graham

3.
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

4.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Harris, Sidney J.

5.
The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
Stimson, Henry Lewis

6.
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
Evil, Nietzche

7.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Meredith, George

8.
A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
Bierce, Ambrose

9.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Wells, Carolyn

11.
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
Cozzens, James G.

12.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Hurst, Fannie

13.
I'm a hopeful cynic.
Chapman, Tracy

14.
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Beecher, Henry Ward

15.
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.
The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
Brown, Dean Charles R.

17.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Lynes, Russell

18.
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
Wells, H.G.

19.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future.


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