We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge 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
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
[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
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
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
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Shadows are our reflection of our self the show us what we look like, but like them we can change whats inside — Michael Country Copy Share Image
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality. — August Wilson 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
The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it new!" It's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women.… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still… — David Foster Wallace 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
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
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
“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
“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
“We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, two drugstore tuna-fish sandwiches,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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