Belongs Quote by Swami Vivekananda

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

— Norman Mailer

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

— James Purdy

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

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

— George Orwell

“Sentimentality is the knife that cuts away logic and reason.”

— Sarah Noffke

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.”

— Jane Jacobs

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

— Graham Greene

“Sentimentality was a weakness begging to be exploited.”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

— William S. Burroughs

I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in…

— Nelson Algren