I am getting tired of being taken in." "And some day you will get tired of being cynical." "I am very much obliged to you for your hopeful view of my future.

You evidently imagine that I have gone in for the fashionable creed of the young man of the present day.

I am not young enough to take pleasure in high collars and cheap cynicism, Miss Deyncourt.

Cynical people are never disappointed in others, as I so often am, because they expect the worst.

In theory I respect and admire my fellow-creatures, but they continually exasperate me because they won't allow me to do so in real life.