Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does. — Cynicism

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

"Cynicism is intellectual dandyism."

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

"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."

"Your universities teach you to be eternal cynics, a cynicism that can be only drowned in alcohol and diet pills and psychoanalysts and golf. Forget your cynicism. There is not one who has more respect for life than a revolutionist."

"Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us."