Sentiment Quotes

367 quotes by 291 authors

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. — Honore de Balzac
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for… — David Beckham
We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave… — Michael Bloomberg
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. — Lord Chesterfield
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland
We are thrilled to work with Fun and share the same sentiment that we want do some really exciting and innovative things for the magic… — Criss Angel
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his… — James Keller
The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron… — Kenneth E. Boulding
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. — George Santayana
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment. — Felix Frankfurter
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only… — George Santayana
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. — Ugo Betti
We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment. — William Hazlitt
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the… — Walt Whitman

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