Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Sentimental blackmailing is the melodrama done by heart over our brain.” — Upasana Banerjee Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it. — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a… — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Those sentimental radio hits, with their artificial naivete and empty crudities, are the pitiful remains and the maximum that people will tolerate… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“His brown eyes would roam around the various sentimental and artistic bric-a-brac present, and his own banal toiles (the conventionally primitive eyes,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“There are some things that don't change much. I find the smell of a dish, or the way a certain spice is… — Tessa Kiros Copy Share Image
“COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL In the deserted park, silent and vast, Erewhile two shadowy glimmering figures passed. Their lips were colorless, and… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life. — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image