Sentimental Quotes

345 Sentimental quotes by 302 unique authors

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism… — William Ernest Henley
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. — Jack Butler Yeats
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination. — Konrad Lorenz
I'm not a sentimental guy. — Gene Hackman
Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the… — Robert Muller
Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe… — Nigel Cole
Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like,… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to… — Gary Clark, Jr.
The Russians are a very sentimental people. — Mike Jackson
I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's… — Kidada Jones
My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words… — Leopold Fechtner
A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders. — Honore de Balzac
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman… — Honore de Balzac
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. — Samuel Johnson
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy… — George William Curtis
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. — Andre Malraux
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. — Robert Genn
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should… — Walt Disney
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem… — Eugene O'Neill
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. — Alberto Manguel
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. — Graham Greene

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