"A cynic is a kind of romantic..." - Quote by John Updike
A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
More by John Updike
“Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.”
“Nature refuses to rest.”
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
More on Cynicism
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
“Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.”
“But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.”
More on Romanticism
“Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.”
“Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.”
“The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.”