Sentimentality Quotes
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The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?
— George Orwell
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Cruelty and sentimentality are almost always companion characteristics in an individual but never cruelty and love.
— James Lee Burke
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
— Woodrow Wilson
Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Sentimentality could blind a man to the truth. Those who appear the most trustworthy deserve the most suspicion.
— Tom Rob Smith
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
— Tony Gilroy
No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!
— Sheri S. Tepper
Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.
— Ryan Fitzpatrick
Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.
— W. Somerset Maugham
In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.
— Anne Frank
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."
— Gillo Dorfles
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.
— Charles Kuralt
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
— J.D. Salinger
Sentiment isn't a bad thing.
— Benjamin R. Smith
Sentimentality is only emotion you haven't proven to the reader - emotion without vivid evidence.
— Mary Karr
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
— Marc Webb
And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
— Toots Thielemans
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
— William S. Burroughs
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.
— Robert C. Solomon
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
— Miranda Raison
The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.
— Mason Cooley
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.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
— Leonora Carrington
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
— Simon Beaufoy
Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
— Pete Hamill
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
— Henry David Thoreau
Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality ...
— Margaret Mead
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
— John Barton
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.
— Helene Aylon
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903
— Wallace Stevens
Family is everything!" he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. "If you don't have family, what do you have?
— Sonal Panse
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.
— Anita Brookner
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
— Melina Marchetta
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
— Cecil Beaton
Your sentimentality softens all the edges, you're misremembering. Take a moment to recall it as it really was: fucking hell.
— Miranda July
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.
— Flannery O'Connor
They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.
— Sean O'Grady
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
— Ellen Glasgow
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was datedold-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes
Phillip cleared his throat and got to his feet. I need some fresh air. All this postbattle rah-rah-we-lived sentimentality is a bit cloying.
— Jennifer Estep
Sentimentality towards the undeserving is as dangerous as agreeing to putting one foot in the grave.
— K.A. Hosein
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
— Caitlin Thomas
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
— Michael Lewis
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
— Lasse Hallstrom
That is the flaw in my personality. Vanity. And your flaw is sentimentality. They are the flaws which will inevitably kill us both.
— John D. MacDonald
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
— Max Beckmann
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
— Robert Barron
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
— August Wilson
I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
— Cameron Crowe
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
— Marcel Proust
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
— Charles Bukowski
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
— Doris Lessing
I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.
— Alexander Payne
How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?
— Olaf Stapledon
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
— Irwin Edman
It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.
— Jean-Pierre Dardenne
One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober.
— Connie Willis
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.
— Marshall McLuhan
There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses
— Christopher Hitchens
