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Sentimentality Quotes by Walker Percy
- Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
- 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…
More Sentimentality Quotes
- Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. — Jean Cocteau
- The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,… — P.J. O'Rourke
- Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs
- For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to… — Adrian Carton de Wiart
- Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green
- In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and,… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
- The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting. — Shri Radhe Maa
- I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully