Cynicism is an unpleasant
way of saying the truth
- Lillian Hellman
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A cynic is a person searching
for an honest man, with
a stolen lantern
- Edgar Shoaff
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack
- Harry Fosdick
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The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were
- John Keats
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No matter how cynical you get,
it is impossible to keep up
- Lily Tomlin
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game
- Henry Beecher
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those
who have not got it
- George Bernard Shaw
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