CYNICISM QUOTES III

quotations about cynicism

If to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable, and take human nature as you find it ... is to be cynical, then I suppose I'm a cynic.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The Back of Beyond


The cynic is to the world what the confirmed bachelor is to mankind.

E. P. DAY

attributed, Day's Collacon


Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

JAMIE WHYTE

Crimes Against Logic


I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless, perhaps, the two were the same thing?

R.L. STEVENSON

An Inland Voyage


So, swallow that cynicism boy
It's ruining my air boy
I'd be sleeping with it now
If you hadn't bit it's wrist to the marrow

STEVE VAI

"Just Cartilage"


I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope--an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

JOHN FOWLES

The Magus


The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

JOYCE CAROL OATES

Do What You Will


Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

HENRY ROLLINS

"Riff on life's journey blends humor, hope", Columbus Dispatch, April 2, 2010


When ... the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed!

SAMUEL ULLMAN

From the Summit of Years


A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"


Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


Cynicism--the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

RUSSELL LYNES

attributed, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Toasts & Quotes


Cynicism is intellectual treason.

NORMAN COUSINS

Human Options


A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

EVAN ESAR

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