I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to… — Mandy Moore 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
My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details. — Yuan Yuan Tan Copy Share Image
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on. — Miranda Raison 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
“Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just… — Jonathan Tropper 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
I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pucetti’s was the generation that was all in favour of sentiment, sharing other people’s pain, voicing compassion for the downtrodden, yet Brunetti… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“I've got plenty of courage, as much as you! ... Only, if you want the whole truth ... everything, absolutely everything! disgusts… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline 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
“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
“No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!” — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
“No sentimentality, comrade...The only good human being is a dead one.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated. — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
