Sentimental Quotes
345 Sentimental quotes by 302 unique authors
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Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
— Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than…
— Anthony Trollope
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Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere…
— Larry Harvey
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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama…
— Margot Kidder
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You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
— Holly Near
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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff…
— Mark Twain
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Let's name the sentimental hog Arnold
— Unknown Author
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It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered…
— Steve Fowler
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
— William Ralph Inge
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
— James Joyce
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What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the…
— Erma Bombeck
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Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is…
— Irwin Shaw
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While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not because of sentimental…
— Unknown Author
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A…
— Michael Dirda
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Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most…
— Jeremy Begbie
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There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.
— Peter Greenaway
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I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves…
— Jim Harrison
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I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
— Christopher Nolan
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a…
— Bill Richardson
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