Sentiment Quotes

367 Sentiment quotes by 284 unique authors

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly… — Wyndham Lewis
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain… — James Whistler
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. — Ambrose Bierce
gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected. — Ambrose Bierce
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of… — George Washington
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment… — Horace Walpole
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and… — Elaine Pagels
In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the… — Berthe Morisot
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble,… — Erasmus Darwin
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. — Nathan Bedford Forrest
The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must. — Henry Clay
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it… — Ambrose Bierce
There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all,… — Thomas Reed
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it. — Criss Jami
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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