Emotional Quote by Nelson Algren

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion…

— Matt Haig

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry

— Max Beerbohm

“Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.”

— Philip Larkin

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the…

— Vijay Seshadri

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

— Anonymous

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

— Graham Greene

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

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single…

— Jeremy Begbie

Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

— Elizabeth Goudge

“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

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things…

— Robert Palmer

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

— Henry David Thoreau