Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans,…

— Jane Jacobs

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads…

— Jane Jacobs

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

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

— Anonymous

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

— Graham Greene

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single…

— Jeremy Begbie

Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to…

— Brigid Brophy

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things…

— Robert Palmer

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion…

— Matt Haig

“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans…

— Cynthia Ozick

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

— Judith Ellen Foster