Sentimentality Quotes

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

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 as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

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

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.

She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.

I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.

As a devil's advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning, just as there was a flaw in his ability to feel.

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!