Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Heigl

I'm not terribly sentimental.

Ellen Glasgow

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

Swami Vivekananda

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

Leslie Jamison

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Patrick Stewart

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

Mary Oliver

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

John Elway

I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.

Richelle Mead

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

Victor Pinchuk

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

Victor Hugo

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Roland Barthes

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

Thomas Carlyle

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Stanley Fish

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

Stanley Fish

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

Stanley Hauerwas

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Thomas Pynchon

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

Thomas Kinkade

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

Winston Churchill

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

William Ralph Inge

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

W. Somerset Maugham

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