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

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The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
Cynics and Cynicism
Dean Charles R. Brown

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I'm a hopeful cynic.
Cynics and Cynicism
Tracy Chapman

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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Ideals and Idealism
Eliza Cook

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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Cynics and Cynicism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
Cynics and Cynicism
Nietzche Evil

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The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything.
Potential
John W. Gardner

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

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Morality
Roy Hattersley

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

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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Ideals and Idealism
Irving Layton

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I once said cynically of a politician, Hell double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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Oscar Levant

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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Cynics and Cynicism
Russell Lynes

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Cynics and Cynicism
H. L. Mencken

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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
Cynics and Cynicism
H. L. Mencken

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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Meredith

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Luck
Joyce Carol Oates

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Bernard Shaw

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The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
Cynics and Cynicism
Henry Lewis Stimson

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Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
Cynics and Cynicism
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

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

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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
Cynics and Cynicism
H.G. Wells

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Oscar Wilde

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