Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Krist Novoselic

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Thomas Carlyle

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Victor Pinchuk

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

Rick Riordan

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

Euripides

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Homer

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.