A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
Ralph B. Perry
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Vachel Lindsay
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
Lily Tomlin
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
Bill Bailey
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Joyce Carol Oates
That's what I dislike about the mainstream media. There's this overwhelming cynicism.
Tim Bodine
Defied cynicism and entered politics.
Bill Pullman
Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
J. Russell Lynes
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