Aversion Quote by Anonymous

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

— James A. Baldwin

“Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to…

— Brigid Brophy

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole…

— David Attenborough

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the…

— Mark Doty

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into…

— Hermann Hesse

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in literary criticism’s…

— Sianne Ngai

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

— Oscar Wilde

“Sentimental blackmailing is the melodrama done by heart over our brain.”

— Upasana Banerjee

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

— Norman Mailer

“Sentimentality is the knife that cuts away logic and reason.”

— Sarah Noffke

“Sentimentality was a weakness begging to be exploited.”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye