Sentimentality Quotes

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

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.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

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.