Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

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.

we should not become misologues, as people become misan- d
thropes. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable
discourse. Misology and misanthropy arise in the same way. Misanthropy comes when a man without knowledge or skill has placed great
trust in someone and believes him to be altogether truthful, sound, and
trustworthy; then, a short time afterwards he finds him to be wicked
and unreliable, and then this happens in another case; when one has
frequently had that experience, especially with those whom one believed e
to be one’s closest friends, then, in the end, after many such blows,
one comes to hate all men and to believe that no one is sound in any
way at all.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

All the world used her ill, said this young misanthropist, ... and we may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill, deserve entirely the treatment they get. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.

"She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. "Misanthrope" is someone who dislikes everybody, not just men.
And they certainly had a word for someone who hates women: "misogynist." But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word."

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

"The "sociable" man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment."

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

"How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?"

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 <i>politics</i>.

What man’s not guilty? It’s taken you a long time to learn
That everybody loves himself more than his neighbour.