Done Quote by George Meredith

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

— Oscar Wilde

“A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can have our…

— Oscar Wilde

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

— Mason Cooley

“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

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but…

— Oswald Chambers

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

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

— Norman Mailer

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

— D. H. Lawrence

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

— Leonora Carrington

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but…

— Frederick William Robertson

Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way…

— Sue Grafton