"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, vigila…"

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

"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."

"If you scratch a cynic, you will find a disappointed idealist."

"Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than …"

"Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, …"

"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."

"Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them."

"Cynicism is intellectual treason."

"Cynic: An idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediat…"