Sentimental Quotes

'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.

Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body. I only know it isn't mine.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

I'm a sentimental guy.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

I am not a sentimental person.

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

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just be a wreck!

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

I'm not terribly sentimental.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

I am professional. Hardworking. Committed. Loyal. Also sentimental. But I had changed a little over the years. There was a bit of a heaviness to my soul because of the intensity of my job.

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don’t want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me sentimental. (Kat)

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.