Cynical Quote by Merle Shain

“Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death to decorum…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.

— Robbie Williams

We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should…

— Francis Schaeffer

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

— Stendhal

Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge…

— Leo Buscaglia

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

— John Ruskin

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

— Honore de Balzac

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely…

— Helen Fielding

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche