Sentiment Quotes

367 Sentiment quotes by 284 unique authors

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art. — Honore de Balzac
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame de Stael
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will. — J D Salinger
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of… — Louisa May Alcott
Tout notre raisonnement se reÂ duit a'Â Â ceÂ der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling. — Blaise Pascal
The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. — Graham Greene
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit… — Frank Herbert
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. — David Hume
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. — Thomas Kinkade
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. — Abraham Lincoln
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. — Abraham Lincoln
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual… — Walter Lippmann
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
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea… — John Henry Newman
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or… — Barack Obama
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling. — Josh Radnor
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best… — Leland Stanford
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of… — Cat Stevens

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