A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde
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  1. 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. - Terry Pratchett

  2. Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse - Joseph Brodsky

  3. Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent. - Glen Cook

  4. Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. - Leon Trotsky

  5. All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going... - Conan OBrien

More Quotes By Oscar Wilde
  1. Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

  2. The heart was made to be broken.

  3. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

  4. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  5. Who, being loved, is poor?

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