MISANTHROPY

Related Subjects: Cynicism, Selfishness

1. And this the burden of his song forever used to be,—
   "I care for nobody, no, not I, if nobody cares for me."—ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Love in a Village
   

2. Naebody cares for me,
   I care for naebody.—BURNS, I Hae a Wife o' my Ain
   

3. To fly from, need not be to hate mankind.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

4. Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.—HAZLITT, Criticisms on Art
   

5. Lean, hungry, savage, anti­everythings.—O. W. HOLMES, A Modest Request
   

6. To be the friend of the human race is not at all in my line.—MOLIERE, Le Misanthrope
   

7. I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.—SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens

8. A misanthrope I can under­stand—a womanthrope never.—OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest