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A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
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 Ward Beecher
Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty.
- Milan Kundera