#Sentimentality Quotes

“There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.”

“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.”

“Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?”

“Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.”

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.”

“Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.”

“I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.”

“I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.”

“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”

“That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.”

“Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.”

“She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.”

“Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.”

“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

“The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.”

“In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”