Sentimental Quotes
345 quotes by 310 authors
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
— Irving Babbitt
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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
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.
— John Banville
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
— Victoria Beckham
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Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living…
— Adele
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways,…
— Brandon Boyd
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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad…
— Mitch Albom
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Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.
— Sandra Bullock
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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
— Lord Chesterfield
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
— Lydia M. Child
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
— Jean Cocteau
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the…
— Charles Ferguson
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