Desire Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— Norman Mailer

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

— Mason Cooley

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

— James Joyce

Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.

— Sheila Heti

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