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Cynicism QuotesFamous Cynicism quotes by popular authors such as Oscar Wilde, Sydney J. Harris, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Henry Mencken and others.
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[highlight-text]Cynicism is humour in ill health.
H. G. Wells
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[highlight-text]Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
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[highlight-text]A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.
George Meredith
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[highlight-text]Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
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[highlight-text]A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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[highlight-text]What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark
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[highlight-text]There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan
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[highlight-text]A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sydney J. Harris
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[highlight-text]Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]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. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher