Inspirational Quote by Ellen Glasgow

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

— Anonymous

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

— Max Beckmann

It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.

— Sister Souljah

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience,…

— Anonymous

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

— Norman Mailer

“Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to…

— Brigid Brophy

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…

— Hermann Hesse

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

— James Joyce

I think you have to be fond of something to pastiche it. If you hated it, it would just come across as bitter.

— Katy Wix

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes