A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his minds eye.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

Musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Reward is its own virtue.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

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

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I am not a cynic.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

I'm an old cynic.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

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

I'm a hopeful cynic.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.