Sentimental quotes
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
-- Adrienne Rich -
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
-- Alfred Hershey -
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
-- Andrew Motion -
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Let's name the sentimental hog Arnold
-- Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers -
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
-- Camille Pissarro -
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
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I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
-- Chrissie Hynde -
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
-- Christopher Nolan -
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.
-- Colum McCann -
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
-- Cornelia Funke -
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What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
-- David Foster Wallace -
I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.
-- David Nicholls -
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
-- Don Adams -
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human
-- Emilie Autumn -
For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.
-- Emmett Tyrrell -
My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.
-- Frances Hardinge -
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I'm a sentimental guy.
-- Fred Durst -
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
-- Fred Durst -
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.
-- Gary Clark, Jr. -
I'm not a sentimental guy.
-- Gene Hackman -
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Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
-- George Mason -
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
-- Gertrude Stein -
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.
-- Grimes -
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I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.
-- Gus Van Sant -
I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
-- Gus Van Sant -
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
-- Holly Near -
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
-- Irving Babbitt -
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
-- Irving Babbitt -
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.
-- Jack Butler Yeats -
I am not a sentimental person.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
-- James Taylor -
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.
-- Jarvis Cocker -
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
-- Jean Gebser -
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
-- Jean Rhys -
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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!
-- Jeremy London -
We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.
-- John Banville -
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
-- John Banville -
I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.
-- John Elway -
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We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.
-- John Yau -
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.
-- Josh Radnor -
Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.
-- Judith Ellen Foster -
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I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm not terribly sentimental.
-- Katherine Heigl -
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
-- Krist Novoselic -
And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
-- L. Frank Baum -
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When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
-- Leonard Maltin -
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
-- Martin Luther -
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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
-- Mary Astor -
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.
-- Mary Ruefle -
The Russians are a very sentimental people.
-- Mike Jackson -
Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
-- Mrs. Patrick Campbell -
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Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).
-- Pandurang Shastri Athavale -
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.
-- Patrick Stewart -
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
-- Pierre de Coubertin -
The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.
-- Richard Le Gallienne -
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I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.
-- Rob Sheffield -
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
-- Robert Genn -
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
-- Samuel Prout -
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
-- Sister Parish -
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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.
-- Stanley Hauerwas -
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)
-- Stephen Batchelor -
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it
-- Susan Howatch -
Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
-- Taylor Caldwell -
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High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
-- Thomas Kinkade -
I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterwards, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'
-- Venus Williams -
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.
-- Virginia Woolf -
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
-- Voltaire -
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Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.
-- Wayne Pacelle -
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
-- William Carlos Williams -
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
-- William Godwin -
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
-- William Sloane Coffin -
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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
-- Yasunari Kawabata -
The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!
-- Charles Clayton Morrison -
To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.
-- Charles Villiers Stanford -
I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.
-- Danielle Arbid -
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There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.
-- John Vanderslice -
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
-- Maureen O'Hara -
One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.
-- Saul Friedlander -
I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.
-- Vaginal Davis -
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I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the truth, which leads to the worst kind of sentimentality. But I'm also a sentimental person who feels quite a bit of nostalgia.
-- Will Sheff -
A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.
-- Daniel Kehlmann -
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
-- Helen Lynd -
There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.
-- James Purdy -
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I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.
-- Louis Garrel
