A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private… — Jerzy Grotowski Copy Share Image
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes… — Adam Hasner Copy Share Image
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal. — John Fahey Copy Share Image
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the… — Hans Hinrich Wendt Copy Share Image
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
