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Cynicism

«Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.»
Author: Bill Bailey | About: Cynicism, Wisdom
«A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye»
Author: Carolyn Wells | About: Cynicism | Keywords: monocle
«Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.»
Author: David Wolf | About: Cynicism
«Cynicism is intellectual dandyism»
Author: George Meredith (Novelist, Poet) | About: Cynicism
«Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.»
Author: Lillian Hellman (Playwright) | About: Cynicism | Keywords: cynicism, unpleasant
«Cynicism is intellectual treason.»
Author: Norman Cousins (Editor, Essayist) | About: Cynicism | Keywords: treason
«Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.»
«Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.»
«A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word»
«In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically»

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