I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea…

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

— Andre Malraux

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

— Jon Bon Jovi

“It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into…

— Rona Jaffe

“Happiness is…tender puppy kisses on my nose...”

— Terri Squires

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with…

— Charles Baxter

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in…

— Ed Koch

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

— Anonymous

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

— Gus Van Sant

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

— Walker Percy

I love being sentimental and remembering things. I literally am a sentimentalist.

— Noah Centineo

[Hunt for the Wilderpeople] people seem to be just finding it hilarious in Sundance. I would think that judging on the feedback I get;…

— Sam Neill

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who…

— Jim Harrison