Quote by Sydney J. Harris

“I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.”

— Alexander Payne

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

— George Orwell

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“A cynic is just a wounded romantic.”

— Pamela Jaye Smith

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience,…

— Anonymous

“Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.”

— Iimani David

“Sentimentality was a weakness begging to be exploited.”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in literary criticism’s…

— Sianne Ngai

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

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

— Jane Jacobs