Sentimentality Quotes · Page 3

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

— William S. Burroughs

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

— Thomas Carlyle

People laud the things and castigate the legatee.

— Anonymous

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

— Woodrow Wilson

“If my freedom of speech hurts your sentiment, no doubt you are SentiMental”

— Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.”

— Alexander Payne

“Sentimentality was a weakness begging to be exploited.”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

— Mason Cooley

Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'

— Hugh Grant

One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I…

— Greta Gerwig

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

I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because…

— Golda Meir

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

Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

— James A. Baldwin

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

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

— Walker Percy

“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

“It’s not just my body. I’m cold inside. Not disciplined properly. That’s what it is. I still long to cling to warm…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to…

— Cynthia Ozick

You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say…

— Robert Boswell

I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go…

— Bradley Whitford

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a…

— Alice Walker

“Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our…

— Bryant A. Loney

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

Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just…

— Osamu Dazai

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the…

— Vladimir Lenin

Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest…

— Ang Lee

“We must distinguish between ‘sentimental’ and ‘sensitive’. A sentimentalist may be a perfect brute in his free time. A sensitive person is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Polaroid material has the most beautiful quality - the colors on one side, but then the magic moment in witnessing the image…

— Stefanie Schneider

Stop wasting time wishing you could take back what you already did.

— Anonymous

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

— E. M. Forster

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

— Charles Bukowski

Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

— Howard Jacobson