The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!” — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I'm tired of trying, I'm sick of crying, but yeah I'm smiling but in the inside I'm dying. — Christine Mae Sajo Gallego 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
Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“the only things he had ever given her that she hadn’t discarded in their divorce, both retained in the name of sentimentality.” — David Mack Copy Share Image
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If something is bound to happen, it will happen. In the right time, with the right person and for the best reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel.… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
You judged. They felt attacked and offended. They attacked back. Now you both feel horrible. Simply be conscientious of everything you do.… — Wandini Copy Share Image
“When it seems you are having too much fun, then a switch turns on in your head and makes you think; if… — A.H. Scott Copy Share Image
I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, in all its forms, is the attempt to get some effect without providing due cause. (I take it for granted that… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Look now. Look at what you value, what you hold dear. Objects, first. And not necessarily because of their innate value (although… — Stephanie Kallos 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
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor 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
“No sentimentality, comrade...The only good human being is a dead one.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Give me some time give me some brain give me another chance to write the paper once again — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
“Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
