Sentimentalist Quotes

19 quotes by 15 authors

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. — Oscar Wilde
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem… — Robert Penn Warren
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. — Thomas Carlyle
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
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — William Ralph Inge
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges. — Lillie Langtry
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he… — Oswald Chambers
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be… — Brigid Brophy
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. — Jack Butler Yeats
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to… — Aleister Crowley
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. — James Earl Jones
I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out. — Vanessa Paradis
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his… — James A. Baldwin
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a… — Oscar Wilde

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