Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.
What is a cynic?[Cecil Graham]A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.[Lord Darlington]
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
Cynic is a Greek word which translated into your language means a pig who does not care if the whole world knows that he is a pig.[Циник слово греческое, в переводе на твой язык значущее: свинья, желающая, чтобы весь свет знал, что она свинья.]
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
