Sentimentality Quotes

141 quotes by 124 authors

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. — Simon Beaufoy
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. — Graham Greene
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. — E. M. Forster
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly. — Alexander Payne
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling. — Josh Radnor
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. — Helen Rowland
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier.… — Ammon Hennacy
A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People… — Mark Helprin
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big… — John Grogan
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action. — Hermann Hesse
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. — Carl Jung
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. — Charles Bukowski
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the… — Milan Kundera
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by… — Flannery O'Connor
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to… — Jane Jacobs

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