“Samuel: What's a misanthrope? Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger. Samuel: Are we misanthropes? Arthur: Lord no! We're family. ”
“Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.”
“Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' . . . or maybe it was a 'cynical misanthrope'. . . but either way, he (or she) was right; and what got me this way was politics.”
“Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen”
“If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.”
“You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”