Sentiments Quotes

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Sentiments speak louder than language.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

— Woodrow Wilson

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

— Agatha Christie

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

— Pierre de Coubertin

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

— William Blackstone

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.

— Mason Cooley

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Blessed are the mothers of the earth. They combine the practical and the spiritual into the workable ways of human life.

— William L Stinger

Grace of manner is inspired by sentiments, which is the source of no slight enjoyment to a cultivated mind…

— Derick

A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.

— Kate Samperi

“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

— Ambrose Bierce

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

— Benjamin F. Wade

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it…

— Henry Rollins

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

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which…

— Wilfrid Laurier

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that…

— Naoto Kan

Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables.…

— Richard Brookhiser

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist…

— Rebecca West

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to…

— Julianne Malveaux

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR…

— Daniel Webster

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the…

— Edward Gibbon

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement…

— Arianna Huffington

Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is…

— Nancy Gibbs

“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be…

— C.S. Lewis

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our…

— Amy Carmichael

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal…

— Benjamin Disraeli

A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a…

— Thomas Jefferson

The ironic factor that is between the Houthis and al-Qaida, that is, they both have strong anti-American sentiment. For example, the slogan…

— Safa Al Ahmad

Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and…

— William Graham Sumner

Dawn Of The Dead is about how we're just a country cannibalizing itself, turning into one shopping mall, and everyone at the…

— Eli Roth

“The art of government lies in finding ways to take advantage of such sentiments, not wasting one’s energy in futile efforts to…

— Pareto Vilfredo

The integration in Germany was made easier by the fact that I am probably of the third generation. So I have undergone…

— Norbert Elias

Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so…

— James Boswell

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches…

— Abraham Pais

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons…

— Walter Lippmann