Sentimentality Quote by William Somerset Maugham Download Open image “Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way” — William Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sentimentality Wrong way
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne Copy Share Image
“You know, I don’t believe in churches and parsons and all that,” she said, “but I believe in God, and I don’t believe He… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was an exquisite memorial to that than which the world offers but one thing more precious, to a friendship; and as Philip looked… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it. — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“She knew nothing about children. After it was settled that Philip should come down to Blackstable, Mrs. Carey had thought much how she should… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His heart went out to them. There was one quality which they had that he did not remember to have noticed in people before,… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.” — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip came gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it not meant for his… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment. Pain and disease and unhappiness weighed down… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Then he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect, of body or of mind: he thought… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Next morning on her way to the factory Liza came up with Sally. They were both of them rather stale and bedraggled after the… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne Copy Share Image
“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is simply two… — Peter Alliss Copy Share Image
Never waste time for someone who doesn't even bother wasting time just for you,be with someone who will say,time is wasted if I am… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
