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.
People that are sickly and rickety should have the goodness to see about getting themselves buried – the sooner the better.[De som syge og skrale er, de skulde værs’god se til at bli’ begravne – jo før jo heller.]
Nobody over fifty has got any sense.
It is good to be a cynic—it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
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 have this really unnecessary desire to destroy fledgling feelings through cynicism.
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.
I always think loyalty’s such a tiresome virtue.
