A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. — Oscar Wilde 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
Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way — William Somerset Maugham 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
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge 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
They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism. — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
Some people just don't understand, how coming into someone life and leaving them without no words said can effect someone, mentally, emotionally… — Sam Marcellin 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
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever… — Hermann Hesse 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
There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Please don’t mistake Love for sentimentality or weakness. Real Love is a fierce thing. Love allows things that must end to die,… — John Augustus Newcomb 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
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness… — Jean Maalouf Copy Share Image
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs 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 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
“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE: "Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least… — Alice Simpson Copy Share Image
“My own kind. I'm not sure there's a name for us. I suspect we're born this way: our hearts screwed in tight,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to… — Doris Lessing 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
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
“It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed… — Danielle Wood Copy Share Image
We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated. — Robert Barron 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
I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
