Counterproductive Quote by Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

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

— Norman Mailer

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

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 only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— D. H. Lawrence

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

— James Joyce

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

I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

— Cameron Crowe

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

— James Purdy

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

— Mason Cooley

Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

— Howard Jacobson