Sentimentality Quotes

141 quotes by 124 authors

Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. — James A. Baldwin
Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. — Walker Percy
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in… — Walker Percy
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs,… — S. J. Perelman
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality. — Andre Gide
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality. — Woodrow Wilson
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill… — John Cheever
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. — Wallace Stevens
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our… — Vance Havner
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. — Caitlin Thomas
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish… — Lionel Blue
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. — Jane Jacobs
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. — Mitch Albom
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. — Max Beckmann
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell. — Tony Gilroy
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood… — Garth Ennis
The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions.… — Benjamin Mkapa
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is… — Theodore Roosevelt

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