Sentimentality Quotes

141 quotes by 124 authors

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality. — Toots Thielemans
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. — D. H. Lawrence
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship… — Pepper Schwartz
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe,… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting. — Shri Radhe Maa
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not… — Brigid Brophy
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see… — Matthew Scully
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more.… — Tracy K. Smith
Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds… — Maya Angelou
Sentimentality is unearned emotion. — James Joyce
Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It… — Mal Peet
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
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is… — Elizabeth Lesser
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It… — C.S. Lewis
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are… — Gabrielle Roth
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and… — Vladimir Lenin
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. — Lasse Hallstrom

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