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“Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.”
“cynicism springs from disappointments in love.”
“The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.”
“[Rinda] often worried how she might make the coward she saw [in Remus] into a brave warrior, and someday, a king -- a task which she felt was her responsibility. Rinda had not yet realized that som...”
“Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not...”
“If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical ri...”
“He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.”
“Out of the mouths of babes comes only bubbles. Out of the mouths of men like me, only babble.”
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”
“Cynicism is humour in ill health.”
“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.”
“A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.”
“Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.”
“Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.”
“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.”
“There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.”
“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”
“Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.”
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.”
