Dishonesty Quote by James A. Baldwin

“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 intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

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

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 a failure of feeling.

— Wallace Stevens

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

— Leonora Carrington

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

— D. H. Lawrence

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole…

— David Attenborough

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

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne