I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Newspapermen, as journalists used to be called, have long been charged with the sin of cynicism. a characterization that many of us encourage to deflect attention from our far more widespread flaw, incorrigible sentimentalism.