“I'm a hopeful cynic.”
“Cynicism is the humor of hatred.”
“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”
“The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.”
“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”
“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.”
“The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.”
“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
“Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.”
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
“A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.”
“It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.”
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
“A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.”
“Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.”
“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.”
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”
“The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.”
“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.”
“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.”