Apples Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

— James Russell Lowell

“Yes, all of this I thought about, all of this filled me with sorrow and a sense of helplessness, and if there was a…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Here's a tip, kiddo. A tip for living. This world is rough, and it's going to keep throwing things at you. Don't let them…

— Renee Shafransky

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying…

— J.M. Coetzee

“We must distinguish between ‘sentimental’ and ‘sensitive’. A sentimentalist may be a perfect brute in his free time. A sensitive person is never a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.”

— Sydney J. Harris

“Very often, those who express concern about (or even interest in) the conditions in which farmed animals are raised are disregarded as sentimentalists. But…

— Jonathon Safran Foer

“This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.”

— George Orwell

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“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