Counterfeit Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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 desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Norman Mailer

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

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

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

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

— Margaret Mead

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

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