Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious. — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details. — Yuan Yuan Tan Copy Share Image
I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
“Please don’t mistake Love for sentimentality or weakness. Real Love is a fierce thing. Love allows things that must end to die,… — John Augustus Newcomb Copy Share Image
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, in all its forms, is the attempt to get some effect without providing due cause. (I take it for granted that… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Look now. Look at what you value, what you hold dear. Objects, first. And not necessarily because of their innate value (although… — Stephanie Kallos Copy Share Image
“Pucetti’s was the generation that was all in favour of sentiment, sharing other people’s pain, voicing compassion for the downtrodden, yet Brunetti… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE: "Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least… — Alice Simpson Copy Share Image
“ 'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.' ” — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
“No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!” — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I'm tired of trying, I'm sick of crying, but yeah I'm smiling but in the inside I'm dying. — Christine Mae Sajo Gallego Copy Share Image
