“Beneath every cynic there's a frustrated romantic.”
“A cynic is a frustrated idealist.”
“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
“A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”
“Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.”
“All romantics meet the same fate some day.Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”