A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“If my freedom of speech hurts your sentiment, no doubt you are SentiMental” — Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“the only things he had ever given her that she hadn’t discarded in their divorce, both retained in the name of sentimentality.” — David Mack Copy Share Image
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can promise you we will have good times, bad times, that there will be times you'll want to walk away but… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is… — Peter Alliss Copy Share Image
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time.… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
“When it seems you are having too much fun, then a switch turns on in your head and makes you think; if… — A.H. Scott Copy Share Image
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, imagining age, I would think, Maybe you appreciate things more when you don't have much time left. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Anthropomorphism originally meant the attribution of human characteristics to God. It is curious that the word is now used almost exclusively to… — joy williams Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking… — Ariana Reines Copy Share Image
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