CYNICS AND CYNICISM

Quote: 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. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

Quote: A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

Quote: The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide. Author: Dean Charles R. Brown

Quote: I'm a hopeful cynic. Author: Tracy Chapman British Stage and Television Comedian

Quote: A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Author: James G. Cozzens 1903-1978, American Novelist

Quote: A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty. Author: Nietzche Evil

Quote: The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail. Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

Quote: Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods. Author: Graham Greene 1904-1991, British Novelist

Quote: A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. Author: Sidney J. Harris 1917-, American Journalist

Quote: It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. Author: Fannie Hurst

Quote: Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. Author: Russell Lynes 1910-, American Editor, Critic

Quote: A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

Quote: The cynics are right nine times out of ten. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

Quote: Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. Author: George Meredith 1828-1909, British Author

Quote: The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

Quote: The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. Author: Henry Lewis Stimson 1867-1930, American Statesman

Quote: Cynicism is the humor of hatred. Author: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 1853-1917, British actor-manager

Quote: A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. Author: Carolyn Wells 1870-1942, American Author

Quote: Cynicism is humor in ill health. Author: H.G. Wells 1866-1946, British-born American Author

Quote: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit