Always fighting Quote by Bret Easton Ellis

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

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

— D. H. Lawrence

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

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

— Norman Mailer

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

— Ally Condie

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

— Josh Radnor

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people…

— Anne Lamott

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

— Max Beckmann

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

— Graham Greene

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

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

— James Joyce