“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer
Variant: Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Source: The Course of Love
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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Variant: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
“It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as idealists.”
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 18 (p. 166)
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
Reader’s Digest (May 1979)
“I'm backing David Cameron's campaign out of pure, cynical self-interest.”
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
"Conference Diary", The Independent, 5 October 2005, p. 7.
On The 2005 Conservative Leadership Contest.
2000s, 2005
“You're a cynic," Urgit accused.
Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.”
David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist
Source: Demon Lord of Karanda
