A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like a singalong. And I'm a bit of a sentimentalist for the past myself. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I love being sentimental and remembering things. I literally am a sentimentalist. — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw… — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
“It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The sentimentalist in me loves it when the important things we say and do can be tied to buildings and landscape. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw… — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
“Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Anything of even mildly antiquarian or historic interest was the target of destruction, and anyone who deplored the way the city was… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
“He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back. If he only… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear… — Oscar Wilde 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
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it… — William James Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my life trying to figure out what goes on inside your mind,” he said. “First I thought… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Very often, those who express concern about (or even interest in) the conditions in which farmed animals are raised are disregarded as… — Jonathon Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We must distinguish between ‘sentimental’ and ‘sensitive’. A sentimentalist may be a perfect brute in his free time. A sensitive person is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. — Jack Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges. — Lillie Langtry Copy Share Image
“This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
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