A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Whenever I'm leaving I get sentimental for that nostalgia I know I won't have the next day.” — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments from our past because we… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add,… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Hearts break too fast when they're sentimental Won't stay, won't last when it's love at first sight So why are my convictions… — AJ Copy Share Image
It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare… — Richard Stolley Copy Share Image
The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I do," she said. "I don't want to forget what we had. Ever. In the past, we're perfectly preserved, best friends, in… — Ciara Smyth Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
“Sentimental blackmailing is the melodrama done by heart over our brain.” — Upasana Banerjee Copy Share Image
Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
