I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
Give me some time give me some brain give me another chance to write the paper once again — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on. — Miranda Raison Copy Share Image
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
“A critic can call any poem 'doggerel.' That is no more than a slur. 'Doggerel' or 'maudlin' or 'sappy' or 'sentimental' is… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed… — Danielle Wood Copy Share Image
In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“My own kind. I'm not sure there's a name for us. I suspect we're born this way: our hearts screwed in tight,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“I've got plenty of courage, as much as you! ... Only, if you want the whole truth ... everything, absolutely everything! disgusts… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“We must distinguish between ‘sentimental’ and ‘sensitive’. A sentimentalist may be a perfect brute in his free time. A sensitive person is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“No sentimentality, comrade...The only good human being is a dead one.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated. — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
When I helped people,they thought I was buttering and now when I stopped helping,they call it ATTITUDE. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
