The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
Cynic Quotes
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Cynicism: The intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.
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. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly […]
False hope really makes you cynical.
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic’s eyes to improve his vision.
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
We cannot be in Johnson’s company long, without becoming aware that what draws us to him so closely is that he combined a disillusioned estimate of human nature sufficient to launch twenty little cynics, with a craving for love and sympathy urgent enough to turn a weaker nature into a benign sentimentalist.
You may not call me naive. If you must label me, you may call me “not cynical”
