Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Sometimes the pain hurts so good it brings happy tears to my eyes and reminds me I'm still alive. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
You judged. They felt attacked and offended. They attacked back. Now you both feel horrible. Simply be conscientious of everything you do.… — Wandini Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about… — Ben Gibbard 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
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or… — Matt Haig 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
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality… — Kenny Smith 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
“Auggie said you were too sentimental for your own good sometimes." Out loud he said, "Perhaps, but you have taught me that… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all… — Anonymous 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
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the… — Alain de Botton 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
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
