Sentiments Quotes

583 quotes by 425 authors

She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment… — Cassandra Clare
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. — Robert A. Heinlein
You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare… — John Green
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they… — C.S. Lewis
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and… — Max Frisch
It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment. — Neil Gaiman
People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The… — Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations… — William Hazlitt
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and… — Samuel Johnson
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those… — George Orwell
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our… — J. William Fulbright
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments. — Joseph Joubert
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the… — Albert Einstein
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their… — Woodrow Wilson
We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's… — Robert Baden-Powell
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail,… — Frank I. Cobb
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! — Edmund Burke

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