Quotes and Sayings About Sentimental
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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
