Sentimental Quotes

345 Sentimental quotes by 302 unique authors

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be… — Brigid Brophy
The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to… — Jarvis Cocker
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it — Susan Howatch
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. — Germaine Greer
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an… — Hans Hofmann
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. — Karl Kraus
It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede… — Ted Simon
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism… — Richard Dawkins
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to… — Unknown Author
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about… — David Foster Wallace
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Martin Luther
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty
What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want… — Michael Hutchence
If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say,… — Gerard Butler
I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels. — Ava Gardner
I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think… — William Holden
Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic,… — Deepak Chopra
I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just… — Jeremy London
It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch… — Noel Coward
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not… — Joseph Wood Krutch
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it… — Nick Clegg
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as… — V. S. Pritchett
I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times,… — Ray Bradbury
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic. — Tennessee Williams

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