We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
When I helped people,they thought I was buttering and now when I stopped helping,they call it ATTITUDE. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I keep ego and attitude always in my pockets,so that I can use it when my self-respect and sentiments are being tested… — Abhishek Tiwari 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
“...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and,… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained… — Alice Hamilton 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
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and… — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
Polaroid material has the most beautiful quality - the colors on one side, but then the magic moment in witnessing the image… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
“She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Sometimes we know the answers to our questions yet we still ask. Why? Its because the answers we know are the answers… — Punkinhead Abhishek 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
In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way… — ryan fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy 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
Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in… — Helene Aylon Copy Share Image
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H. G. Wells 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 am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger,… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
