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~ Cynicism Quotes ~
« on: October 13, 2016, 08:50:58 PM »
Cynicism Quotes


Famous Cynicism quotes by popular authors such as Oscar Wilde, Sydney J. Harris, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Henry Mencken and others.




[highlight-text]Cynicism is humour in ill health.

H. G. Wells
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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2016, 08:52:00 PM »
[highlight-text]Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman
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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2016, 08:52:41 PM »
[highlight-text]A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2016, 08:54:06 PM »
[highlight-text]Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

George Meredith
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2016, 08:55:04 PM »
[highlight-text]Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Russell Lynes
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« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2016, 08:55:52 PM »
[highlight-text]A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.

Henry Mencken
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« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2016, 08:58:18 PM »
[highlight-text]A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde
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« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2016, 08:58:58 PM »
[highlight-text]Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
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« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2016, 08:59:39 PM »
[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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« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2016, 09:00:21 PM »
[highlight-text]We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

Kenneth Clark
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« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2016, 09:01:26 PM »
[highlight-text]There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.

George Santayana
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« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2016, 09:02:06 PM »
[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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« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2016, 09:02:50 PM »
[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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« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2016, 09:03:27 PM »
[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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« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2016, 09:04:07 PM »
[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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