The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious. — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ 'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.' ” — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can promise you we will have good times, bad times, that there will be times you'll want to walk away but… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is… — Peter Alliss Copy Share Image
“Deviation from the word of God is sentimentality and says 'you're right' to this one, and 'you're right' to that one, and… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
“How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?” — William Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time.… — Anna Thomas 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
“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
“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
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing… — Max Beckmann 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
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an… — Max Gallo 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
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
“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
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
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
