Sentimental Quotes

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

I'm a sentimental guy.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

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.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.

My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

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

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

I am not a sentimental person.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.