Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.

Skepticism about authority turns into corrosive cynicism.

There's a lot to be said for misanthropy.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

I find myself being quite cynical - and I think we all kind of are - towards the idea that it's associated with being a musician; you know... the kind of rock-star attitude. So, I hope that people know it's a joke.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.