"Idealist: a cynic in the making." — Irving Layton

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• Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. — Glenn Beck
• I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real… — Kristen Bell
• Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce
• Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this… — Jeff Bridges
• The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help… — Joyce Brothers
• There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou
• A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently… — Sydney J. Harris
• The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
• A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and… — James Gould Cozzens
• The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does… — Uell Stanley Andersen
• The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad… — Henry Ward Beecher
• The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder

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