Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne Copy Share Image
“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is… — Peter Alliss Copy Share Image
Never waste time for someone who doesn't even bother wasting time just for you,be with someone who will say,time is wasted if… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“A critic can call any poem 'doggerel.' That is no more than a slur. 'Doggerel' or 'maudlin' or 'sappy' or 'sentimental' is… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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