Sentiments Quotes

583 quotes by 425 authors

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of… — C.S. Lewis
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. — Charlotte Bronte
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and… — Aldous Huxley
Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlettâ€”I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice… — Margaret Mitchell
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. — Cormac McCarthy
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be… — William Ellery Channing
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments! — Nicholas A. Basbanes
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are… — Charles Dickens
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the… — Marcel Proust
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is… — Edward Abbey
Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. — Ian Fleming
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more… — Ian Fleming
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. — Edward Abbey
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge… — Louis Pasteur
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching… — Joyce Carol Oates
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses… — Jim Harrison

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