Cynics Quote by William Goldman

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in…

— Jeff Bridges

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

— Boy George

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism…

— Nora Ephron

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

— Glenn Beck

It's the cynics who never get married.

— Jay McInerney

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating…

— Alain de Botton

The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.

— Simon Singh

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

— Nicholas Sparks

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

— Craig Ferguson

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

— Mason Cooley

“The romantics would call this a love story:the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and…

— Nicholas Sparks