Sentimental Quotes · Page 10

You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure…

— Howard Jacobson

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars…

— Bill Bailey

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

— Honore de Balzac

It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should…

— Steve Fowler

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

— Leonard Maltin

You get sentimental on the road. I'd see a horse with its foal and a tear would come to my eye.

— Charley Boorman

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture,…

— Homaro Cantu

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like…

— Joe DiMaggio

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle…

— Scott Turow

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a…

— Old Tom Morris

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones.…

— Tracey Ullman

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A…

— Berkeley Breathed

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics.…

— Maya Angelou

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying…

— Virginia Woolf

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ…

— James Russell Lowell

“Music, together with certain sorts of majestic landscape, had a well-known tendency to induce such faux-sublime moments: artificial intimations of transcendent truths,…

— Zoe Heller

I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's funny: not only with the title of the album but also the song [It's Decided]. I kind of felt nostalgic. The…

— Andy Kim

I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the…

— Adolf Hitler

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not…

— Steven Plaut

I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like…

— Larry Fessenden

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

— Henry Van Dyke

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything…

— Gary Clark, Jr

I'm all sentimental. I've probably been ruined by romantic movies, but I really do believe in love. I've experienced it, I've had…

— Sarah Silverman

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

— Andrew Sean Greer

My sentimental problems, my private life, should not be involved in sports and politics.

— Peng Shuai

I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.

— Cary Fukunaga

Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

— Rita Rudner

I think of myself as a softy. I think the 87th Precinct novels are very sentimental, and the cops are idealistic guys.

— Evan Hunter

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

— Alberto Manguel

“It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could…

— Rona Jaffe

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was…

— Louis Garrel

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

— Flannery O'Connor

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

— David Nicholls

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically…

— Winona Ryder

“Now was not the time to be sentimental. As a child, she'd been ridiculously sentimental about loss, about time passing.”

— Maryanne O'Hara

“Let's get really fucked up and full of sentimental despair and then finally decide life, despite every heartbreak and anguished cry, is…

— Jim Dodge