One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
I keep ego and attitude always in my pockets,so that I can use it when my self-respect and sentiments are being tested… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
“...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained… — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Polaroid material has the most beautiful quality - the colors on one side, but then the magic moment in witnessing the image… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
“She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Your sentimentality softens all the edges, you’re misremembering. Take a moment to recall it as it really was: fucking hell.” — Miranda July Copy Share Image
It's hard when u meet the right LOVE at the wrong TIME, but what's more painful is when u have to GIVE… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
Never waste time for someone who doesn't even bother wasting time just for you,be with someone who will say,time is wasted if… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Sometimes we know the answers to our questions yet we still ask. Why? Its because the answers we know are the answers… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and,… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Copy Share Image
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way… — ryan fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
