Ambiguous Quote by Gillo Dorfles

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

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

— James Joyce

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

“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 only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the…

— Mark Doty

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

— Karsten Harries

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

— Leonora Carrington

Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

— James A. Baldwin

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

— Graham Greene

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

— Saul Friedlander